Marianne     13-09-2023     Comments (0)

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The Perfect Wedding Accessory: Bags and Hats for Wedding Guests

  Marianne     11-07-2023     Comments (0)

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Ladies Only Event Hengelo

  Marianne     13-06-2023     Comments (0)

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Back in time: trip to Tuscany, Umbria and Rome in 2016

  Marianne     12-05-2023     Comments (0)

Back in time: trip to Tuscany, Umbria and Rome in 2016 In 2016, I was the lucky winner of a trip to Tuscany, Umbria and Rome when I had entered a photo contest from the women's magazine Libelle. Spending a week visiting the most beautiful places in central Italy was an amazing experience! The report of my trip and some of my own photos were published in Libelle later that year. I would like the visitors of MariMarlo to enjoy this wonderful trip as well and therefore below you will find my travel report with nice tips that are definitely worth a visit. Just imagine that you get to go to Italy for a week as a travel reporter for Margriet. And to Tuscany, Umbria and Rome, the very places that have been on your wish list for a long time! It happened to me and together with good friend Laura I traveled to Bologna in May 2016. What a wonderful city! A feast for the eye, ear and taste...

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Parlo Italiano

  Marianne     08-05-2023     Comments (0)

Parlo Italiano I speak Italian. At least, I think it would be wonderful to be able to have a real conversation with Italians when I am in Italy. Unfortunately, I'm not there yet, but I really want to try to make this beautiful language my own. Hence, I picked up another Italian course early this year, this time an online version through Italian Anders. In the past I have tried to learn Italian before and had lessons at school together with other lovers of 'la dolcia Italia'. It was during one of these courses that I met Marloes, now my 'partner in bags', the Marlo of MariMarlo. Italian Different is really learning Italian in a different way. Without a lot of homework or pounding on words, but a lot of listening, reading and talking during class. Teacher Delia is originally from Naples and communicates in a completely Italian...

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  Marianne     19-02-2023     Comments (1)

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...

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How our webshop is developing; from idea to bag walhalla!

  Marianne     02-02-2023     Comments (0)

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...

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Message in a Bottle

  Marloes     15-01-2023     Comments (1)

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...

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Seville in Christmas spirit

  Marianne     14-12-2022     Comments (0)

Seville in Christmas spirit 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...

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Our story on the Ciao Tutti blog!!

  Marianne     21-11-2022     Comments (0)

Our story on the Ciao Tutti blog!! 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...

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Green Friday, our sustainable discount promotion

  Marloes     16-11-2022     Comments (0)

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Girl’s Night Out

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Keyrings with a story

  Marloes     26-09-2022     Comments (0)

Keyrings with a story Driving through Chianti, you see them everywhere. Those beautiful handmade leather key rings with a large variety of subjects. From Pinocchio, a fiasco wine bottle, the fire spitting Etna to the Italian symbol for luck, the red pepper. The shops in Radda, Greve and Gaiole are full of them. Each time after coming home from an Italian holiday my bag is decorated with a new key ring.  A flower, an edelweiss or a cute little mini bag. The designers of these small handcrafted key rings are Gianni Raineri and his wife Pina Romeo. At the fashion fair in Milan last March, we met Gianni and his daughter Valentina, who also runs her own business with other leather items. A very nice father and daughter. We are very happy that these beautiful leather key rings are also in our MariMarlo webstore now. One key ring, the lemon, even...

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