How good to reunite with lovely Paula! She’d joined in an Umbrian rural cuisine cooking class last year in Laguna Beach – and this year, hosted her own class (with colleague, Gary) in Dana Point. We reconnected as we prepped for the class near the set table, rosemary plants lined up down the middle, leading…
No better way to spend an icy January week-end than in Arezzo, especially if you’re staying at the warm and welcoming Casa Volpi. After meanders in nearby Monterchi, we arrived close to dinnertime at Casa Volpi where smiling owner Alessia Volpi settled us in our spacious room – what views of Arezzo out the window!…
This first “Inside Umbria” adventure for ten persons simply has to be called “a celebration”: we’re celebrating husband Pino’s superb restoration work on our Assisi farmhouse apartments, Assisi Casa Campagna, with an Umbria adventure for ten persons, centered on an astounding medieval “celebration”, the early May Assisi Calendimaggio festival. With four days of stunning medieval…