f only I could ‘bottle’ the team of Mama Marguerite, her daughter Isabella, and partner Marco, we’d have a veritable ‘living’ cookbook of the best recipes of regional food of Puglia. The three of them rattle-up to our villa in their little car most nights lugging bags of fresh produce, and it’s through these lovely …
Our 2-week stay at Villa Trullo Pinnacolo in the countryside of Pugia was a series of welcomes, reunions, and surprises. My sister Anne and Trevor and I were ‘in residence’ for the whole fortnight. The first week revolved around Musgrave family, and in the second week my ‘extended’ family from different parts of the world, …
he ‘Baroness’ von Stieglitz was in real trouble with her ‘companion’ El Duque de Cobos in an impromptu performance of the Tango and Gypsy Rhumba down by our pool at the villa a couple of nights ago. El Duque de Cobos choreographed the opening sequence of the Latin Dance ‘performance’ and ‘rehearsed’ the Baroness to …
hunch prompts Agostino to drive off the expressway into the parking lot of a soul-less shopping centre in the middle of rice fields in the plains of Lombardy feeling that he might just find a traditional Italian restaurant tucked away. And yes, a stand-alone, seemingly ramshackle building emerges behind rows of parked cars. We are …
e decide to give Rome a miss today and head north east from the port of Civitavecchia to the Italian hilltop town of Orvieto in Umbria. I want to revisit the brilliantly coloured chapel of St Brizio in the Cathedral (more correctly the Capella della Madonna di San Brizio) – famous for the fresco cycle …