Umbrian snake.

Umbrian snake.

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...

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Good Morning.

Good Morning.

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...

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Slowing down traffic the Italian way.

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...

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Colour feast

Colour feast

Spring is in full swing here in Umbria. A feast of incredible colours. Some pictures.......

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Sunny days in Umbria

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.

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Lilae

Lilae

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.

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The Pro way

The Pro way

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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Homemade Pranzo

Homemade Pranzo

Just as we started driving full throttle up the hill we was halted by one of our neighbours. They are always interested in what we are up to and they must have spotted the big branches filling the car. "Hazelnut and fig trees someone donated us", we explained. Great,...

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How to hunt for asparagus the Umbrian way.

Well I guess hunting for these elusive sprouts is the same all the world over but this is a piccolo filmato using Umbria as a background. If you have decided this will be your new hobby for the coming time stick to it. As they say in Germany Es ist noch kein Meister...

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