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 …
23rd SeptStefano was so pleased with my photos of the figs, carrots and maize etc in his vegetable patch earlier in the week, so much so that he offered to come over and cook for us on our final night. He brought all the ingredients including a flagon of olive oil from last year”s olive …
I enjoy a “field day” today with no limits on the taking of photographs of interiors in the Duomo in the hilltop town of Orvieto. The fields along the way are also worth a picture or two (and worth risking driver Edmundo”s wrath for wanting to stop in impossible places on narrow mountainous roads). Sunflowers in …
I wake to a chill wind and a clear sunny morning after an overcast weekend. Lunch plus dinner each day is starting to take its toll on the waistline so a morning walk along the ridge to the next town is not a bad idea. The sun is about to rise over the valley Vineyards …
Here I am in the middle of Umbrian farmland for more than a week, and I haven”t found basil that smells like basil. On hearing this, Stefano, the obliging interpreter for the owners of the villa, packs me into his car and drives me home to meet Mama Rita and Papa Mario. And then straight into …