Shannon and Alison, we’ve toured together all over Umbria (years ago), cooked together in Colorado (more than once!) and wonderful to have you and Flynnie and Gabriel here with us in our…
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 –…
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,…
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…
When the Shea family joined me to cook up Umbria, we started with peaches: we needed to get our peach tiramisu for dessert chilled. [lcaption]All the family unites on our tiramisu with…
Now Andrea and her papa’ Edoardo – from Sao Paolo Brazil – feel they’ve truly come to know Italy. As Signor Edoardo told me, “I feel I only know a country if…
“Good things come in threes,” they say. For me, our third year of the early May ten-day “Annesitaly INSIDE Umbria” Celebration affirms the saying. Kris, Sally, Jerry and Carol, mille grazie to…
Linda and Ken left us this note after their June 2017 stay in our Casa Nuova country apartment: “Thanks to a mutual friend, we were able to meet you – what a gift!…