La Casella, ECO-Resort
Travel Blogs from Ficulle
Rain, Sleet, Snow, Fog
... of meditation. "Yoga of awareness" is what I’ve heard it called and that sits well with me. It is amazing to sit at table and break bread with folks from Russia, Germany, Mexico, Singapore, Australia, the US and even Iran. Few have the opportunity that we’ve had over the past week. It has been a joy to share in the very healing and open space created by all these yogis. Eating vegetarian for most of the 7 days has been a healthy alternative ...
Car hire for 3 days over
... impressed by a bloke playing the flute, his music floated through this quiet olive tree park. Nick grumbled away about it for the next hour. Yes, he didn,t buy one of his cd,s. set off west to bibbona to see the seaside areas. Hmmmmm everything closed, beach is black sand, area is dull n drab, buildings everywhere but all shut. So ended up a fun hour trying to find somewhere to stay, ended up near hill town of bolgheri. Hotel with only us in ...
The Land of Chocolate
... should be since it comes from Perugia).
The festival itself was small so my friends and I explored the corridors of the city for a couple hours.
Sadly, there's not much else to say except I saw a man playing songs from "Amelie" on his accordion and my heart melted. ...
A Picture Perfect Town
... piled in from all over and it became nearly impossible to get anywhere on Corso Vanucci. 150 chocolate brands are represented at the festival with Perugina, Lindt, and Milka being the "anchors". There are chocolate fondu fountains, hot chocolate stands, chocolate sculptures; there are bars of chocolate of almost any variety you can think of, except caramel and cinnamon, both of which are difficult to find in Italy, in any form (which ...
Chocolate Festival? Sign me up!!!
... a sight it was! Stall after stall after stall of chocolate! And the smell! It was divine!
We found out it was possible to buy a "Chocolate card" for 5 euros which enabled you to get free samples at certain stalls. This included Lindt and Milka! We were also able to get a free phone case (which looks like a bar of chocolate!) from a stall called iChoc. Here, it was also possible to buy laptop covers, memory sticks, lamps, all in the shape ...