Today while telling my tour guests about the restoration of the Basilica di San Francesco in Assisi after the 1997 earthquake, I added “and feast your eyes on this splendor, remembering that…
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Giuseppa gives us far more than an “Umbrian” welcome when we arrive at her farmhouse for a rural lunch. No one opens home and heart to visitors like Giuseppa. No one. Just…
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…
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…
……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…
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…
Why head to Nocera? Here’s one reason. …and have a look at the good eating in Nocera Umbra: Click here to raed about nearby Gualdo Tadino Read more on Gualdo Tadino Read…
As you head through the arched medieval entrance of hilltop castle-village, Collemancio, you’ll probably see an elderly lady in black, ubiquitous gold chains draped around her neck, sitting in her chair along…