Up early and despite ominous looking clouds, set off for Assisi.  Town car parks were not quite so full of…

The storms promised happened in the early hours and so by the morning, despite the low clouds in the valley,…

Most Tuscan villages have “sagra” food festivals at some point in the year, and they are a great way to…

Strange weather after the unrelenting scorching sun of the last couple of months. A nice breeze but rumbles of distant…

This morning I cooked up our tomato harvest and made a pasta sauce. The market on Saturday also provided the…

Got up early to go to the hairdressers as our friends A & S are getting married. The wedding is…

Daisy dog has a bark that would shatter glass and resonates through the sparse corridors, landings and tiled floors of…

Back to Citta della Pieve but this time via Florence, or rather a village overlooking the classical city. We managed…