From Colorado to the Assisi Countryside
Shannon and Alison, we’ve toured together all over Umbria (years ago), cooked together in Colorado (more than once!) and wonderful... View article
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Living Umbria: Sharing Our Rural Life
Jodi, Star, Robyn and Susan, a delight to have you all in our Assisi countryside apartments! A joy to have... View article
Umbria’s Rural Life Revisited: Treasured Memories, Treasured Friends
A group of us lived a bit of history today when we visited our rural friends in the Assisi countryside,... View article
From Rome to Umbria: Ties That Bind
How did I end up spending the rest of my life in Umbria? The Italian connection started years ago while... View article
Winning an Auction Leads to Umbria
Susan, you bid on the week in our farmhouse offered as an auction item by our dear friend, Donna. A... View article
Near Assisi, Truly Living Italy
It’s my mantra: you can’t know Italy if you don’t know the people. And Italy today is rooted in rural... View article
From Peaches to Peppers: Cooking Up Umbria
When the Shea family joined me to cook up Umbria, we started with peaches: we needed to get our peach... View article
Rural Umbria, Rural Treasures: Truly Knowing Italy
Now Andrea and her papa’ Edoardo – from Sao Paolo Brazil – feel they’ve truly come to know Italy. As... View article
“Inside Umbria” Celebration, May 2017: Good Things Come in Threes
“Good things come in threes,” they say. For me, our third year of the early May ten-day “Annesitaly INSIDE Umbria”... View article
Our Apartment Guests: Feeling “Right at Home”
Linda and Ken left us this note after their June 2017 stay in our Casa Nuova country apartment: “Thanks to a... View article
Agenzia Viaggi Stoppini in Assisi handles all technical support for my guided visits (bus transportation, organization of meals, etc)