Our Marches region motorcycle explorations took us down from San Giustoon a serpentining dirt road to the main highway leading to nearby Tolentino. Encircled by softly-rounded hills Tolentino’s medieval streets lead to…
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Hilltop pastures, live oak and chestnut woods, springtime-green fields of wheat lined the twisting roads our motorcycle followed into the region of Le Marche on that spring day a few years ago.…
You won’t have the basil variety highlighting il vero pesto genovese (“the true Genovese pesto”), but this pesto recipe of a Genovese friend is closest you’ll ever get to the vero pesto…
A short distance south of Rome, pristinely white houses of Sperlonga stack up like children’s blocks on the rocky promontory jutting out over the Mediterranean. Follow the labyrinthine alleyways towards the 16th…
When Umbria is cooking (today, July 18, 2015, over 40 C – or about 105 F – in nearby Perugia) – and what’s roasting is not grilled lamb but us – it’s…
“This has been the highlight of our anniversary trip. I’ve loved being in the Umbrian countryside! …… (And) think of the ‘life experience’ Ryan can take back to school and share with…
Yes, we’re cooking here in Italy as temperatures shoot past records, springs risk drying up and elderly are warned to stay indoors…but some are ignoring those warnings. A smiling gray-haired woman waved…
Whether you stay in our in-town Assisi apartment or our countryside guesthouse (right behind our farmhouse), there are a couple obligations: – you have to join us for a rural Umbrian dinner…
If you’re not sure where to find a bit of Paradise on earth, just settle for Eden on a lake, the Hotel Eden of Lake Bolsena. Just about an hour and a…
There really isn’t any reason to seek out Moiano, tiny village north of Perugia and south of Lake Trasimeno: unless you’re here in Umbria at the end of June – and you’re…