What does it take to own and run a B&B in the Italian countryside?

American Ashley Bartner can tell you all about it – and she's going to, today on the Expat Focus Podcast.

10 years ago, she and her husband Jason left the hustle and bustle of New York for a big old farmhouse in the beautiful Marche region of Italy. They've turned it into a very successful organic farm, inn and cooking school – called La Tavola Marche. But that's not all - Ashley and Jason are also helping other expats lay the groundwork to realise their own dreams of 'living the sweet life' in Italy, after experiencing first-hand, the consequences of being unprepared.