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…
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…….….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…
Pino’s reconstruction team works hard – and as a unit. Now and then, they can team to feast, too! Late in June, Pino’s crew paused in the restoration work of tiny hill…
On the last Sunday in August, my crowdfunding venture took to the wheels: Pino and I put on helmets, mounted his moto Guzzi and headed southeast into the mountainous Valnerina (Nera River…
It’s hard to decide which is the highlight of a rural banquet with Giuseppa in the family farmhouse near Deruta: her rural goodness, cooked up with such passione – or the warmth…
Every year for Corpus Domini (60 days after Easter), over seventy stunning floral tapestries carpet piazza and winding alleyways of medieval hilltown gem, Spello, fruit of months of flower-gathering and then all-night…
La Festa della Vernaccia is celebrated in the tiny walled Umbrian town of Cannara just after Easter for this treasured dessert wine is intertwined with Easter in local tradition. The cannaresi traditionally…
The last – and only time – we turned our own grapes into wine was in 1975, our first year on the land in Umbria. The land and farmhouse had been abandoned…
I’ve decided it’s time to offer more than just Umbrian hilltown guided tours. After all, my love for Umbria is tied to the land as well as to the art and history.…
I certainly love sharing the Umbrian hill towns with my tour guests. But sharing Umbrian rural lore while preparing Umbrian goodness in our Assisi farmhouse is just as fulfilling. Karen and Todd,…