One of the best meals I’ve had recently was a long lunch at the restored house belonging to good friends near the village of San Vincenzo (PE).
San Vincenzo isn’t very big. But it is on the edge of Parco Nazionale del Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga and is a great springboard for exploring the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]