Last Saturday the Guide dell'Umbria had organized a guided tour in Bevagna. A small and not very well known town that used to be of great importance. Talking a long time ago, during the Romans. Speaking are the vague remains of an amphitheater (houses were built on...
Yesterday morning the tiny water droplets were shining in the sun, small diamonds on the hairy leaves and flowers. The blu of the flowers so powerful one does understand ages ago this plant was associated with courage.
A video where you can see how I pruned an olive tree, fast forward style. https://youtu.be/uIzdpyujqS8
I had finished my swim and was changing. Around me four young Italian girls were preparing for their swimming lesson. The changing room was empty apart from us. The radio played a love song of Jovanotti, called 'A te'. It is a wonderful song. The lyrics are beautiful...
The weather is terrible. Very hard wind combined with nasty rain. And lots of it. One tree on the road to my house apparently gave up. It blocked the road. When I arrived one of the drivers was already working on the problem. He apparently happened to have a chainsaw...
Yesterday I walked through the garden. The path I usually take is no more. Wild boar dug it up the night before. They did not only dig up the path, their noses looked for all kinds of lovely foods also in the garden. What a force! It reminds me of a meticulously...
Time flies ... it really does. Especially when friends are visiting and life is good. Hence the terrible silence here ... but I will write something tomorrow (or at least very soon) about a lovely, very Italian, truffle restaurant!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaoJ_Ac6r-o] The small white car you see in this short and loud video is mine. Too bad I remembered only after the rain had stopped that I had left all 4 windows open ...
Yes ... not sure yet how serious I am about this, but when I walked into my vegetable garden this morning ready to water and take care of my plants, I decided that I would simply give up. Now, a few hours later, I am slowly getting back to my normal self and my...
Snails are far from my favorite. Years passed by since I last ate them (in the typical French way where you pick them out of their shell). A week ago a friend of mine invited me to dinner. I had proudly said that I eat anything some time ago, so he did not bother...
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