A stroke of buona fortuna to come across the Osteria Sienti’n Puo’ on a jaunt to Norcia last summer. We’d parked outside one of wounded Norcia’s scaffolded medieval gates (due to earthquake…
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A late eighteenth-century hilltop monastery near San Marcello in the Marches region is undergoing an astounding resurrection. And all thanks to the restoration skills of Pino’s team, Impresa Edile Giuseppe Alagna, on…
Jodi, Star, Robyn and Susan, a delight to have you all in our Assisi countryside apartments! A joy to have you with us, right from our dinner together the day you arrived:…
A group of us lived a bit of history today when we visited our rural friends in the Assisi countryside, hearing their stories of life on the land. And when Peppe –…
Peppa often invites us over for lunch or dinner and the invitation is almost always preceded with “non ho molto ma mangeremo qualcosa”: “I don’t have much but we’ll eat something.” This…
How did I end up spending the rest of my life in Umbria? The Italian connection started years ago while studying junior-year-abroad in Rome. Coming up to half a century soon: Mary,…
Well, Mike and Celinda, you’ve now made the leap: the decision to live in Italy – and over the next few weeks, you’ll be deciding WHERE to set down those Italian roots.…
Susan, you bid on the week in our farmhouse offered as an auction item by our dear friend, Donna. A joy to have met you and shared the week with all your…
It’s my mantra: you can’t know Italy if you don’t know the people. And Italy today is rooted in rural traditions and the rural people remain Italy’s “national treasures.” Lois and Larry…
Pino often has quite a jaunt to bid on stone restoration work in distant sites. If I’m not booked for a tour on the day he’s headed to an area I’ve never…