Do you also enjoy experiencing a wine tasting when you are on holiday in Bella Italia? Or do you take wine from one of those cozy stalls along the road? Very recognizable, because we do too 😉. Marloes often buys her wines at the Cantina Vini Tipici Aretino in Arezzo, the heart of Tuscany. You can taste the Tuscan sun in your glass! This winery has a long tradition of growing grapes in its own vineyard for more than half a century. Delicious wines that you drink with family or friends at long tables full of pasta, juicy tomatoes and irresistible olives while the orange sun slowly sinks behind the hills of Tuscany. The crickets start their song, a cane barks in the distance and here comes la mama with a delicious tiramisu that melts on your tongue and washes down with a sweet dessert wine. You want to hold on to this feeling...

When you start with a webshop you don't know what will come your way. And that's a good thing! It seems so simple, you build a webshop or have it built, you put your products on it and start selling! In practice, however, it is not that simple. When we got the idea over a year ago to start selling Italian bags in the Netherlands, we had an idea about what our website should look like: Tuscan look through use of color, category division, a personal touch, of course beautiful bags, that it had to be. The company name was still quite difficult, because a lot already existed. Until we came up with MariMarlo, a combination of our first names Marianne and Marloes. It sounded a bit Italian, didn't exist yet and with the addition of 'Bags & More' it nicely indicated what we wanted to do. Fortunately, we were able to...

Message in a Bottle After leaving the highway at Figline Valdarno we slow down the car and drive into the hills of the Chianti. Our fellow road users are harbingers on the relaxed way of life in this region. Turkeys meander on the road between olive trees on golden slopes. In front of us a sea full of blue sky floating on the clouds of the warm Tuscan sun. We are on our way to Tenuta Il Palagio, the sixteenth-century estate of the famous singer Sting and his wife Trudy Styler. While turning down the volume of The Police we enjoy the tranquility of this idyllic part of Italy.   We make a stop at the ‘Farm Shop’ of Il Palagio. A friendly young lady helps us to select wines that we can taste for just a few euros. It won’t take long to make a choice because we have been looking...

When I booked a city trip 2 months ago, my wish was to go to a place with a lot of Christmas atmosphere. At first I thought of London, but I had been there before. I also looked at Italian cities and yet I ended up in Seville, Spain! This place has been at the top of my wish list for a long time, along with the other cities of Cordoba, Granada and Malaga in Andalusia. We arrived in Seville in the rain, our hotel was right around the corner next to the Giralda, the bell tower with 25 bells. The Giralda is located on the Plaza Virgen de los Reyes, a cozy square surrounded by orange trees and a row of carriages with ponies in front that are happy to offer visitors a ride through the city. By now the sun had broken through and we enjoyed a leisurely walk through the Santa Cruz district with glimpses of Mediterranean courtyards here and...

Ciao tutti, or Hello everyone! Do you already know the Ciao tutti website? Full of Italian inspiration for holidays, recipes, books, tips for restaurants, gift ideas and other things worth knowing. We have been a fan of this website for years and look forward to the Newsletters that regularly appear in our mailbox. We are proud to announce that this week there is a very nice article about us - MariMarlo Italian bags and accessories - on the website of Ciao tutti. We tell our story about the origins of MariMarlo, our range of bags, key chains, wallets and much more, all supplemented with beautiful photos. Our bambino is still growing and gives us lots of fun and energy. Super fun is the giveaway of Ciao tutti. You now have a chance to win such a unique leather key ring from our La Cuoieria collection. Fill in the win form on the...

Vrijdagavond 28 oktober was het zover: Girl’s Night Out! Een feestelijke avond met ondernemers uit Olst-Wijhe. Onder het genot van een hapje en een drankje kon er hippe kleding geshopt worden bij Boetiek KuZZZ van Ingrid. Voor bijpassende sieraden en brillen kon je bij Monique van Optiek Monique terecht. Ondertussen was Nienke van Haar & Visagie Nienke druk om de dames er op het best uit te laten zien. Dit alles werd vergezeld van een wijnproeverij met Italiaanse wijnen bij de Wijncasa van Hannie. En voor ons, MariMarlo, een mooie gelegenheid om onze Italiaanse leren tassen weer fysiek te tonen. We hadden gekozen voor een mooie selectie Anna Virgili tasssen, feestelijke clutches en casual crossbodytassen, aangevuld met bijpassende bagstraps en tashaken. De reacties van de genodigde dames waren vol enthousiasme en er werden...