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Travel Day - Lecce to Rende
Car Travel Day. Thankfully the car has air conditioning. The peak temperature fort today was 33 degrees. Most of our travel was on main auto routes. We passed through several prime agricultural areas. The boot of Italy is very flat. Many fields of fruit trees, market growing, etc. We are now into a hilly region. Finding the hotel was a bit of a …
A Day in the Life Of An Artist
... of the lines onto the blank plate. So really, our job was simply to trace it and fill in the color. It took me a while to get used to the method of painting, because it was certainly different than oil painting. The paint was in a colored glass cup, so when you needed blue you took the blue cup and used the lid as a palette. Then you dip the brush into what seemed like water inside, but I later found that the actual paint was solid pieces that you needed to ...
Another fun day!
We started the morning with just about as much exercise as climbing Mt, Etna! We went to a Sicilian dance studio to learn some Sicilian dances and we had a ball. Everyone was really into it. You must have them demonstrate when they gets home! Then we drove on down the coast Taormina where we visited a Greek amphitheater with fantastic views of Mt. Etna and the ...
From one painting to another!
... of what it might be like to live in this part of the world. Many British people do end up retiring here and we can see why.
Our new hotel is just outside a place called Foligno which is 4kms from Spello. While the hotel is modern and a little impersonal for us, it offers easy access to various places that we want to explore in Umbria like Spello, Assisi, Perugia, Todi, Montefalco and Spoleto. Maybe Orvieto too although that looks like it could be the next ...
Bippity Boppitaly
... br> Once we unpacked our stuff we wanted to go explore a bit. We had no idea how to get from our inn to the main part of town (which was very small). So we decided to walk. It was not our best idea. However, Massimo (our very friendly and helpful guide) drove us to town every time we needed to go and picked us up when we were ready. We went to the store which was about the size of a living room. We stocked up on pasta, pesto, ...
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