When planning our road trip through Italy I wanted to make a stop in Urbino to visit the Palazzo Ducale, but I didn’t really want to spend the night there. My first choice, Valle Nuova, had not opened yet for the season and so we decided to travel a little past Urbino to the [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Il Parco Ducale-Urbania
Posted in Italy, Restaurants/Hotels, travel on April 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Residenza Cento Torri-Ascoli Piceno
Posted in Italy, Restaurants/Hotels, travel on April 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Over the mountains and through the woods to the town of Ascoli Piceno. After an incredibly frustrating time trying to locate the inn, which is tucked away in a maze of medieval streets, we finally found Cento Torri. It would have helped if I had the address handy, but even after locating the address and [...]
Genius Loci-Bevagna
Posted in Italy, Restaurants/Hotels, travel on April 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Located between the Umbrian towns of Bevagna and Montefalco, Genius Loci is a gem of an inn run by Mary (an expat originally from California who has been in this area for forty years) and her son Michael. As you wind your way down their driveway the house appears set amidst olive trees and a [...]
Il Giglio-Montalcino
Posted in Italy, Restaurants/Hotels, travel on April 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The small albergo where we stayed in Montalcino was easy to find, however figuring out what to do with the car on those incredibly narrow streets was another thing! I jumped out of the car leaving J. sitting there as two shop owners motioned that he could not park there! Eventually the innkeeper advised me [...]
Venice-A Love/Hate Thing
Posted in Italy, travel on April 25, 2008 | 5 Comments »
It’s been five years since we’ve been in Venice and initially we hadn’t planned on visiting this time either. Our original plans had been to wind up our vacation in Bologna, but when I tried to make hotel reservations every place I tried was either fully booked, or the rates were outrageous. We decided that [...]
Ascoli Piceno
Posted in Italy, travel on April 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Before heading out to the countryside of Le Marche we spent two nights in the small city of Ascoli Piceno which is where we ended up after the many tunnels through the mountains coming from Umbria. I had been interested in seeing this area after following the adventures of Valerie and Bryan.who, moved to this [...]
Fields Of Green
Posted in Italy, travel on April 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I hesitate to write about the beauty of the Le March countryside, since I’m not sure I want anyone else to be driving around its countryside! As we left the city we were greeted by rolling hills in every shade of green and flowers in bloom around every corner. Lilac bushes lined the road [...]
On The Road Again
Posted in Italy, travel on April 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We left Umbria much too soon! We loved it there and had barely begun to scratch the surface when it was time to move on. Being a “ceramiche” obsessed person Deruta was the one place that I definitely wanted to visit and it did not disappoint. Armed with umbrellas (it was pouring) we made [...]
In Umbria
Posted in Italy, travel on April 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We don’t have a lot of time on the computer, but I wanted to share our wonderful view. We drove here through the rain from Montalcino, after visiting various tiny Tuscan hill towns on the way. Our inn (which I’ll write more about later) is perfect and we couldn’t ask for a better view! We [...]
Roaming The Countryside
Posted in Italy, travel on April 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We left Arezzo with the help of my wonderful landlord who drove us with all our luggage to the car rental location. It was hard for me to even say goodbye to her! Although we have a GPS in the car, we still had some trouble actually leaving town, (so what else is new?) but [...]
