Last year Sue visited a new ceramic museum. She loved it with all the images on the medieval and Renaissance pottery. So we had been trying to get her group in this year. But it was always closed. Wednesday evening we asked our friend Cristina, who was showing us through Etruscan caves, about the museum. [...]
Archive for the ‘Orvieto Experiences’ Category
Sue Spargo Serendipity
Posted in Orvieto Experiences, Orvieto Italy on May 18, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Cooking in Orvieto, Itlay
Posted in Orvieto Experiences, Orvieto Italy on May 17, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Cooking is always so much fun. We went to Zeppelin restaurant to cook with Chef Lorenzo. After we are done cooking, Vitopaolo, who runs the front of the house, sets up a beautiful table where we enjoy the fruits of our labors. We actually ended up cooking 3 kinds of pizza instead of just one. [...]
Sue Spargo in Italy
Posted in Art instruction, Orvieto Experiences on May 15, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Sue Spargo’s class has begun in Orvieto. Today is day two of the workshop. Sue arrived a few days early along with other folks. And they wasted no time in getting out their stitching. We love going to Scarponni’s for coffee and a beautiful day led to stitching time over a cappuccino. Yesterday was cool, [...]
Watcher or Participant
Posted in Meaning in Life, Orvieto Experiences on April 25, 2012 | 2 Comments »
I am in the process of putting together our periodic newsletter. In it we are revisiting why it is we do our trips to Italy – something that seemed worth doing as we start our 10th year. Then this morning I read some Mark Nepo that captured a good deal of what it is Italy [...]
Time in Italy
Posted in Meaning in Life, Orvieto Experiences, Slow travel vacations on February 2, 2012 | 3 Comments »
It seems whenever we return from Italy I am stimulated to give greater thought to life and how we live it. I think this is simply a consequence of the fact that Italians live life differently than we. While busy, they spend a great deal of time engaged with other people in face-to-face encounters. It [...]
Autumn Umbrian Light
Posted in Orvieto Experiences, Orvieto Italy on October 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Suddenly, autumn light has arrived in Orvieto. Three weeks ago when we arrived the light was still that of summer. In the last two days, however, it has changed. It is stunningly beautiful. And so, I have had my camera out. Here are a few shots.
Gaining Fame in Italy
Posted in Orvieto Experiences on June 17, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Sometimes life is just too wonderful. We’ve had somewhere in the neighborhood of 150 people join us on our small group trips. They have all been great, and many of them have just been so gifted in their creative abilities. This doesn’t even include our teachers with their awesome skills. We have just heard from [...]
Quilt Embellishment in Orvieto Italy
Posted in Art instruction, Learning Vacations, Orvieto Experiences, Orvieto Italy, Small group travel Italy on June 4, 2011 | 3 Comments »
I am late getting to the final group that was with us this spring. The blog software was agonizingly slow in Orvieto so I gave up doing it there. So here I am. Sue Spargo led ladies from Australia, Ireland, Holland (living in France) and the U. S. in a delightful week of embellishing fabric. [...]
Simple Pleasures in Orvieto, Italy
Posted in Living Slow, Orvieto Experiences, Slow travel vacations on January 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I was doing some reading, which I will quote here shortly, that made me think of Orvieto, our trips there, and how it is really the simple pleasures that make it such an enjoyable time. The remarkable thing about Italy, particularly once you get past the stunning history, art and architecture, is that what we [...]
Blind Child, Mother, and Cherry Blossoms
Posted in Learning Vacations, Orvieto Experiences, Orvieto Italy on January 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I just read a poem with commentary that got me thinking about our trips to Italy and the roles we all play there – sometimes without realizing it. The role players include Kristi and me, our travelers, the people of Orvieto, and Orvieto itself. The poem and part of the commentary: “A blind child guided [...]
