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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 ...
Last Two Days
Yesterday and today has been wet, windy, and cold -- thunder and lightening yesterday -- so not much walking about or touristing. It is currently 3 Farenheit (48 degrees) ... Brrr. We did go to Le Celle Franciscan Hermitage yesterday (see pictures). It's a very old, but still active, monastery. The setting is absolutely beautiful and peaceful. Then on to Cortona where the town was empty and most of the shops were closed. We walked ...
Thanksgiving Dinner
Buon apetito! After two days of prepping, last night we sat down to a delizioso cena! Turkey prepared in a brine, smashed potatoes (pressed through a ricer), green beans with pancetta and leeks, yams (sans marshmallows), cranberries, and biscuits -- which really confused the Italians. When they hear biscuits, they think biscotti. So we called ...
The most amazing place to settle down for 2 months
... we are not tourists here, but residents. As such, we can't wear shorts or flip flops. Since it is still in the high twenties here, this kind of sucks, but apparently it's a sign of respect towards the town, as well as simply just blending in; the townspeople don't wear shorts, so we can't either.
For lunch, a group of us went to the "Bar Sport Cafe" and had pizza - (I had a delicious margherita pizza) and they give us a discount there, for being students so it was only ...
Cortona - a completely different type of Tuscany
We travelled from Podere Consani which was situated above Florence and near the coast to our other Tuscan holiday location near Cortona in southern Tuscany right near the border to Umbria.
Almost as soon as we had travelled past Florence the landscape started to change quite dramatically from the lusher verdant hills to lower rolling hills covered almost exclusively with some sort of agricultural purpose separated neatly with long rows ...
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