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A Chance Meeting with the Artist Paul Critchley in Farindola (PE)

On 19 May 2010 I met the artist Paul Critchley for the first time.

It was chance meeting but it led to a most unexpected afternoon.

Four of us, enough to fill a cinquecento, hoped to spend much of the day outdoors, enjoying the Gran Sasso and the Abruzzo countryside. We never expected that we’d end up [...]

Plenty of Rain, Food and Conversation in Abruzzo; But Here Comes The Sun!

We arrived back in Abruzzo last Friday evening having flown to Rome and driven across Italy in a cinquecento. So far I have to say I love the look of the little Fiat 500 and it does suit the narrow streets of some of the towns we’ve been through better than its larger rivals.

We, like [...]

Abruzzo Weather: Bringing it all back home!

You don’t need to be a weather man to know which way the wind blows ~ Bob Dylan from Subterranean Homesick Blues.

What has a Bob Dylan song got to do with the weather in Abruzzo?

Well take a look at this service that mashes up Google Maps and up to the minute weather data, here it [...]