Hotel Silvana Magione
Via martiri di Belfiore,4 Magione, Umbria, 06063, Italy
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The day of the boat, the railway and the bus
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We finally got to Assisi, and met our guide Giuseppe. Because we had to rearrange Capri, we were late getting here, so it was just on dark. We walked through the old town of Assisi, past gates built in the 14the Century. We saw the church and convent of the Poor Claires. They are a cloistered order, who do not even go into their own cathedral. They have their own chapel in the convent. We went into the Basilica of St Francis ...
Random thoughts and observations Part 2
... or whenever the mood takes them. And still there is no road rage. They beep their horns, and then move on. Even our bus driver just mumbles under his breath and then keeps going.
The soil here is a very pale colour. Not like the red of Australia or even the black of the Positano beach.
There is a lot of marble used in Italy. Every hotel seems to have marble stairs.
It ...
Myfavorite saint was worth the wait
... But they gave it to me anyway. I ate as much as I could, then went back upstairs to have a hot shower and go to sleep.
I woke up in a hurry and proceded to get ready to see Asssis. I decided on a train time and ordered a taxi. Maya and I went walking to find the town. Up into the hills we went, finally arriving in the hillside town. I found the church, went inside, and look around. Next, we went into another area of the church, which was connected to ...
An Umbrian Excursion
... Balducci. We had a great base from which to explore the rest of the dramatic town of Gubbio. Gubbio is amazingly intact as far as the original structures and layout of the city. There's a rich history dating from before the Roman acquisition when Gubbio was a major religious center for the Bronze age inhabitants. In fact at the Palazzo dei Consoli museum you can find remarkably in the chapel, the Iguvine tablets. The Iguvine tablets are ...
Suzie’s Yard: much ado about olives
A shrill cry is heard from across the steep olive grove: “LOOOADS OF OLIIIIVES!”
Antonio, paraphrasing Harry Enfield’s ‘loadsa money’ sketch, is being drenched in a cascade of olives from the branches above him. It is hard, sometimes painful work, but he and his wife, Suzie, have been producing their extremely pure, high-quality organic olive oil for four years, and they are clearly passionate about their product at their farm, Suzie’s ...


