There is no electricity, the roof is full of holes and the walls are crumbling – yet to Sophie Watkins and George Lidgley and their two small children their house is paradise.
To many it would sound like a home from hell but the intrepid British couple could not be happier with the life they have carved out from a ruin on a Tuscan mountainside.
The pair thrive in a back-to basics, off-grid existence in a tumbledown house in Italy’s Casentinesi Forest National Park.
