Sometimes you just get lucky.
Sometimes you get a chance to be in the company someone whose art touches you and whose stories of her home are simply inspiring.
Sometimes you meet someone like Mira Cancelli.
Yesterday we got lucky.
We were exploring the Abruzzo town of Pianella (PE) and noticed there was an art exhibition on in Palazzo della [...]
I’d wanted to see the inside of the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta in Atri for a long time.
Going to Atri is the obvious first step. But I’d been there at least three times and each time the cathedral was closed for restoration.
This time there were no signs of any work going on but the [...]
I’ve been “off the air” for a little while as I was concentrating on exploring rather than writing. In the last few weeks I’ve been busy doing the following:
exploring parts of the Majella I hadn’t seen before
visiting an abbey with an amazing floor
visiting a basilica with fantastic frescoes
exploring shepherds’ ancient stone refuges
taking photos of the [...]