Pino will be coming to L’Aquila three times weekly for a couple of years now, as his company is restoring an apartment complex (three buildings) damaged in the devastating April 2009 earthquake. If I do not have tours on one of the days he comes to L’Aquila to check on his jobsite, I join him…
According to legends, a myriad of la Madonna images have miraculously arrived in Italy from the sea. No one knows when the venerated Byzantine Madonna Greca image arrived in Isola a Capo Rizzuto (Calabria) but legend dates the arrival of la Madonna della Madia – not on a boat but on a raft – into…
Another wondrous day in Perugia..and then on to Deruta for lunch with farm friend, Giuseppa. Mark and Susan from Hong Kong remained captivated today by Giuseppa..and her cooking. Can’t you feel our good times in the photos below? Click here for more on Giuseppa – and her passione Read about Giuseppa, husband Paolo and a…