Pictures of autumn in Umbria
It was a lovely sunny autumn day today, we picked olives and generally enjoyed the autumn weather which got me thinking that I'd scroll through my old pictures. Here is an impression of autumn in Umbria through some pictures, recent and less recent but all made in...
Olive harvest at Frantoio Loreti in Gualdo Tadino
Olive harvest in Umbria Every year in October and November is the time to harvest the olives in Umbria. In 2014 we had a terrible harvest: a combination of bad weather (a mild winter and rain in summer) led to Italy's most disastrous olive harvest. The olive fruit fly...
Halloween in Italy
Chiusi is one of these typical hilltop towns in the South Tuscany, on the Umbria/Tuscany border. It used to be an Etruscan city. Chiusi overlooks the valley of Valdichiana. Chiana used to be a side river of the Tiber. Lake Chiusi and Lake Montepulciano are two...
Risotto ai Funghi Porcini recipe
Funghi porcini, or Boletus Edulis, is a wild mushroom which is not too difficult to find in the forests in Italy. Many go out to find these precious mushrooms, often just after the summer season in September and October. Once I accompanied a friend into the forest in...
Restaurant in Spoleto
Autumn is one of the most rewarding seasons to visit Spoleto. The vineyards are busy with the grape harvest, olive growers are preparing for the new olive oil season, and the surrounding hills provide an abundance of truffles and chestnuts. For food lovers, it is one...
Sagrantino di Montefalco
Last week I was invited to come to Montefalco where the owners of La Vigna, an agriturismo near Saragano in Umbria, were to expose their wines at Enologica. This is a wine tasting event to celebrate the grape harvest and the production of yet again new top wines in...
Sara the Dachshund
Sara is a well know dachshund in Castiglione del Lago, Umbria. The owners of Sara have an Italian delicacy shop in the city centre, called La Dispensa del Lago. Every day you find the dachshund in the shop, hidden under a cupboard. But when somebody passes by to hug...
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