Spring has arrived and the perfect season to offer an incredible and exclusive range of beautiful apartments on the lake shore or in the verdant hills above Lake Como. However, one can be sure that a lake view, terrace and some with pools, is guaranteed! Lake Como is classed as one of the most stunning areas of natural beauty in [...]
Here we are in the depths of a glorious summer that seems has lasted for ever. Hot summer days and warm summer nights under the endless sea of stars. The landscape has turned from fields of poppies and ripening corn to fields of gold and sunflowers. Local sagras are held every week-end providing an authentic taste [...]
After the ice age across Europe n February, it certainly felt as if hibernation had taken place for some months and woke up to find it was summer! How surreal, literally the day after the snow had melted we were experiencing temperatures of 17 deg rising to 20 deg in a few days. PRIMAVERA……SPRING. A [...]
Auguri to all ! I thought I would finish the year by writing a blog on Christmas and New Year in Todi, the beautiful town where I live. A medieval hill town with ancient etruscan and roman remains and its piazza is classed as one of the finest in Italy, beautiful churches [...]
As a fellow Umbrian now, I couldn’t resist publishing an extract of Terry Bhola’s fascinating memoir of relocating to Umbria and into Italian society whilst searching for wild asparagus…….. Picking up everything and moving to a new place is never an easy task. However, Terry and his wife (along with their beloved cat) took the [...]
February in Italy is a wonderful time for making merry, in other words Carnival time. So, in fact, only 4 weeks after the Christmas festivities, Italians gear themselves for a month long period of Festa and indulgence. Carnivale is celebrated all over Italy, in towns, villages and cities and perhaps the most famously celebrated is Carnivale [...]
BUON NATALE A TUTTI! December 8, heralds one month long Italian Christmas festivities with the special holy day of “Festa of the Madonna” and presepio - nativity scenes are on display all over Italy and initiated in 1223 by San Francesco, St. Francis of Assisi, to show the arrival of the three wise men Italian food is [...]
One thing for sure, whether you are holidaying in Italy during the summer months or living there, you will be spoilt for choice in the number of festas, sagras, open air concerts or firework spectacles to visit! We, here in Todi, have had an array of fantastic events, the Tango Festival in June, International Balloon [...]
It’s that wonderful time of the year in Italy….Primavera! The awakening from the winter months and heralds SPRING. It seems the whole of Italy is ablaze with spring colour in the form of beautiful wild flowers, orchids, azaleas, tulips and irises, viola and primula and cherry blossom in profusion. TO BE CONTINUED………………tomorrow!
February in Italy is a wonderful time for making merry, in other words Carnival time. Carnivale is celebrated all over Italy, in towns, villages and cities and perhaps the most famously celebrated is Carnivale in Venice, with its opulent pageants and rich colourful costumes, floating along the canals, masque balls and moonlight gondola rides , [...]
