Loi, thanks so much for your “arrivederci” note to us just before leaving our Assisi farmhouse apartment: “Your gusto, passion and love of Assisi are so special! Thank you, thank you, thank…
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Carol, LInda and Tom, Darrell and Leona, so good to share the flavors of Umbria with you here in our Assisi farmhouse. …and what better way to renew the links than cooking…
The island of Ventotene has just two beaches: Cala Rossana and Cala Nave. And then there’s “the last beach”: the bookstore on the main piazza, “Ultima Spiaggia.” It’s often the last stop…
Many Italians consider goalie Gigi Buffon as Italy’s greatest soccer player. But he’s only “Numero Due” in any case, in the ranks of most beloved Italians. Who’s Numero Uno in this country?…
You’re drawn into a symphony of flavors, a chorus of colors when you push open the door of Bar Gardenia in Cardillo, humble borgata on Palermo’s outskirts. Even the entryway display greets…
August 24, 2016 will be a birthday to remember, in many ways. Although we did not feel it there on the island of Ventotene, an earthquake rocked central Italy at the start…
…….….as the black T-shirts of the Florentine jazz musicians, Funk Off, proclaim. And on an early October Sunday, their trumpets, saxophones, clarinets, drums and cymbals blared out the message through Assisi’s medieval…
……and yet another fund-raiser soon coming up here in Assisi for those left homeless in central Italy’s devastating earthquake of August 24, 2016. In late September, early October, world-class jazz musicians –…
As you exit the upper level of the Basilica di San Francesco, look left at the salt-encrusted, wounded blue boat, paint peeling off like scabs, faded life jacket stretched out on the…
Ristorante Il Vecchio Molino on the outskirts of Lubriano remains a “sensory overload”: for the stunning view from the terrace, for the enticements to the palate. Not far from Orvieto, it’s even…