Today Jen and I drove first to Montefalco, the town that produces Umbria’s finest wine, and then to Bavagna, a little medieval town with a monastery wherein Jen spent a few days earlier in the week. Lunch was at a wine bar in Montefalco’s central piazza: primi, a rustic polenta with Gorgonzola and sausage, and [...]
Travelling some three thousand kilometres south has brought, rather expectedly, a change in weather. It’s mostly sunny, with brief, warm storms.
Also, I have a replacement camera! Yay!
Good food, friendly locals speaking a language that I almost understand, sunshine, vistas over patchwork fields, cobbled streets filled with nuns. This is Assisi, Umbria. It’s hot. I love it. I’ve spent the afternoon wandering up and down the hill gathering picnic ingredients for tonight’s dinner with Jen and Jo. I have baby tomatoes, fresh [...]