Yes … still more snow in Umbria

Took a short but nice walk this afternoon, mesmerized by the whiteness of it all. One does understand snow blindness! Looking at where one puts ones feet, the white and more white has a faint hypnotic effect. Last night and this morning we had another bit of snow,...

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More pictures of more snow in Umbria

More pictures of more snow in Umbria

Yesterday I went for a walk exactly when it re-started to snow. Now luckily, walking in the snow is lovely (where walking in the rain can be less so). However, one of the dogs did not like it. I looked everywhere for her and then gave up, hoping I would find...

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Snow in Umbria

Snow in Umbria

Today a lot of snow! The world turned black and white (and grey ... lots of grey). The forecasts are not great. Still more than a week to go with daily snow fall and temperatures, even during the day, far below zero....

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Spoleto Guided Tour

Spoleto Guided Tour

The 'Guide in Umbria' form a group of Umbria tour guides of excellent quality. The summer of 2011 they had (in Dutch) a wonderful tour of Perugia every Wednesday morning for just 5 euro per adult. The tour was a big hit, many of our guests went and loved it. The Guide...

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Hand gestures in Italy

talians are known for gestures, hand gestures that is. For people who are wise enough to visit Italy whenever the opportunity arises some of these may be familiare. (some are on the edge, don't blame us we didn't draw it).

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The storm……

The storm……

During Christmas we had a real storm here. Wind traveling at the speed of ... ? Anyway, it was too much! In the afternoon I had already seen a tree fall over like a twig, not very promising. So pour a glass of wine, put some more wood on the fire and hope it will be...

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Winter bee

Winter bee

It has been quite warm the past few weeks and no rain. Hard to believe since in the South and North of the country they had horrible flooding. Because of the nice weather here in Umbria we still have lots...

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