New flights Ryanair from Bruxelles (Brussels) to Perugia.
Now that is a nice present for Christmas! If you are planning to stay in your villa in Umbria or southern Tuscany but come from Belgium or Holland, you can from the end of March next year take a Ryanair flight from Brussels to Perugia. The bi-weekly flights will start...
Panettone
It is the time of the year again for all 'produttori di dolci' to try and sell as many of their big airy cakes as possible. I always get the feeling you can't walk in any town or village without encountering some vague conoscente and be burried under all the...
The story of the fat Chianina
In the middle of Italy and especially the south of Tuscany and in Umbria you'll find a type of cow called Chianina. In the older days these impressive and good looking beasts served as draught animals pulling carts and plows over the hilly landscape. When the animals...
Breakfast tea in Foligno
Breakfast after lunch? This afternoon we visited Foligno with some friends. After having enjoyed a nice lunch, about which more later, we went to a bar to have a drink. Our friend ordered a 'te inglese', english tea. The waiter responded 'breakfast?' Rather...
What have you done for me lately honey?
Last week we took pointed our trusty Panda in the direction of Foligno to visit a honey market. It wasn't to crowed so we took the opportunity to chat with the stall holders. It is amazing how many different good quality...
Eccolo, the new villa in umbria site.
Loads of blood, sweat, pasta and wine was what it took but we have finished our new website. Handmade with care in a converted pig stable somewhere in rural Umbria by the Umbria specialists themselves. We always had lots of positive feedback on our old site so...
Wet, wet….
Normally we are not spoiled for water around here but this....... The floods have opened.
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