l'avventura grande

      The cultural highlight in Pienza each Fall, at least for Carol and Roger, is the Pienza Opera Festival. Now in it's 11th season, t...

  In several of our blog posts, we've referred to Sbandieratori, the flag wavers who put on spectacular performances at all sorts of com...

    Siena's Palio is world famous.  A bareback horesrace around the Campo, the city's main piazza.  Ever since Renaissance times, wh...

      As you approach it, the place looks like a conventional Italian country house...one that's been renovated and added-on to over the...

 As Roger's 75th birthday approached, he and Carol got a chance to forget about his impending old age by visiting two friends at their s...

    For years, our friend Valerio Trufelli had a photo in his shop...his then four-year-old daughter Anna standing in the mouth of a huge st...

      May in Pienza is notable for two things:     The wild poppies are in full bloom. ...And Carol wears her pink hat to celebrate the Giro...