Spello Celebrates Umbria Goodness
I’d just intended to buy a thyme plant at Spello’s early April mostra-mercato (literally, “show/display market” or let’s just call it... View article
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Near Spoleto, Cooking Up the Goodness – and Not Only!
A “cooking lesson” is a banal understatement to describe our day at the farm estate near Spoleto of Gianluca Polidori.... View article
Inspirational Youth in Perugia: Festival Internazionale del Giornalismo
This year, the annual Festival Internazionale del Giornalismo animates medieval Perugia from Apri 3 to 7. I’ll look forward to... View article
Novella and Assisi Springtime
It’s all backwards here in March this year: the month came IN like a lamb and is moving out like... View article
Umbria Hazelnuts: the Heart of the Problem
The “heart of the problem” is the hazelnut itself; ironically, the idiomatic expression “the heart of the problem,” is translated as... View article
Spello: Roman Mosaic Splendor
When I grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, an exciting school field trip might have been to Great America in Illinois... View article
Black Truffles Resurrect Norcia
Heavily damaged in the October 2016 earthquake, Norcia’s “resurrection” just might have started: the early March street fair, Nero Norcia... View article
Remembering Graziella Viterbi, Holocaust Survivor in Assisi
Never postpone. I have thought about Graziella Viterbi now and then over the past few months, wondering how she was... View article
From Stockholm to Perugia: Saving the Planet
“Salva il pianeta!” – and sometimes, “Save the planet!” – shouted fired-up students and teachers carrying placards as they wound through... View article
Near Assisi, Stay with Us and Live the Rural Life
Gina and Mike, Byron and Melinda, mille grazie for having brought such a lovely group along with you for a stay... View article
Agenzia Viaggi Stoppini in Assisi handles all technical support for my guided visits (bus transportation, organization of meals, etc)