When here in our splendid Umbria, “Italy’s green heart”, you simply can’t miss meeting and feasting with Umbria’s rural people. Just ask young Shelby from Georgia, here in June in one of…
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Joe, Kim and young Shelby, such a joy to have you as guests in our countryside apartment….and Shelby, thanks for your “arrivederci” note to us and counting on your promise to come…
The discovery of America also included the discovery of zucchini. As of June, zucchini are abundant in every Italian summertime garden and will star in risotto, pasta dishes, main courses, antipasti and side…
As you stroll the medieval hill towns, look down as well as up: art is often on the cobblestoned piazzas and alleyways. The “Madonnara” artists re-created art masterpieces in chalk – and…
Patron saint and early Christian martyr, Santa Cristina reigns in Bolsena – and in unexpected ways. You’ll want to wander through the Basilica di Santa Cristina, finding the early Christian catacombs, remains of…
Throughout Italy, the elegant majesty of rows of the pinus pinea – “umbrella pines” – hghlights lakeside paths, and many a country road: Here and there, loan pini seem like stalwart soldiers, often bent against the wind:…
Bud and Irma, “Mille grazie for your warm note to me after our rural life tour: “…… thank you for the wonderful rural life in Umbria experience, everything we expected and much, much more.…
As summer rolls around, we’ll spend many a week-end at Bolsena on Lake Bolsena. Bolsena’s medieval castle Lake Bolsena And no week-end is complete without a lakefish feast at Trattoria Da Picchietto…
A culinary highlight of an Umbrian springtime? Wild asparagus. Just ask Novella, selling it at her stand in Assisi: …or our rural neighbor Raul, foraging for it in the wood behind our…
We don’t see Aldo with his sheep any longer as they graze on the hill behind our farmhouse. He’s nearly ninety now and lives with his children near Deruta. We miss seeing…