I was looking for a street called Via 5 giorni di Napoli. Arrived at the exact place where the street should be I only saw Via 4 giorni di Napoli. Turned out they made a mistake... the wrong street name plate has been there many years already.
Last sunday my colleague, me and some friends and family went to have lunch at a cheesefarm for which we have been renting out apartments for years. Great place, great people and great food! We started with antipasti most of it their own products: salad, capocollo,...
Are you in Umbria at the moment or visiting in the future and looking for something to do? Head over to http://www.todoinumbria.com for inspiration. A fine selection of events has been categorized by date and location. Also a neat overview of markets and sagras. Site...
What you do when something isn't working, is systematically check the whole system. In some cases this means opening little boxes on the wall where you'll find cables, pipes and ... snakes! Yikes. This one gave me the creeps. Totally harmless but not what you'd expect...
Yesterday morning I woke up to these sights. We have had some rain in the past days which helps create magic conditions. You immediately see why they call this the green heart of Umbria. Now let's hope it stops raining. Enough magic mornings for now! [gallery...
The main highway around Perugia has one very dangerous bend. Almost daily you could find new pieces of debris from more or less spectacular accidents, from scratched cars to huge trucks tipped over and spilling their contents on the road. Nothing they did to the road...
Spring is in full swing here in Umbria. A feast of incredible colours. Some pictures.......
We have some bad weather coming our way but for the past few days we really had lots of sunshine. The olive tree was the last to receive a 'haircut'. The other pictures is the field one of the houses here looks out over.
In Italian these are called 'Lilla' (in Dutch 'Sering'). The Italian and English make a lot more sense than the Dutch word for these impressive flowers that come accompanied with a wonderful smell.
As mentioned before it is the time of the year to go hunting for the slender wild asparagus stalks. Well, I say hunting it is more searching with a very big S. You see one of the great talents of the wild asparagus is to hide itself from view. You know the shoots have...
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