Posts tagged italy

Olive Garden

A little more Olive Gardening Laughter…

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4 years ago
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TweetFace it, I’m back in the states for a few months, so I just don’t have much material for the blog these days.  I mean, when I am in Italy, I could write several posts a day, but I am sitting here in Florida, what to contribute to THIS blog? That said, little things catch my [...]
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Soriano nel Cimino – Palio delle Contrade

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4 years ago
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TweetThis year wasn’t my first time seeing the Chestnut Festival, but through the years, I have never made it to the Palio.   First things first, What on earth is a ‘Palio’ ?  Those who have heard the term generally know of it it in connection with the famous ‘Palio di Siena’, which is a [...]
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The hidden ruins of a 13th century Olive Mill in Italy

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4 years ago
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TweetAsk around Soriano about ‘Fosso Mulino’ (River Mill) and you will get mostly blank stares. So it is no surprise that after all of these years I had no idea that it existed. Very few people do. One day I was out with my friend (and our contractor) Andrea D’Alessio. He asked me if I [...]
Soriano Swordsmen

The Medieval Swordsmen of Soriano nel Cimino

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4 years ago
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TweetFor those of you that will be coming to Soriano for the Chestnut Festival, I thought I would post a video that shows a few of the highlights.  This video is a promotional piece by Soriano nel Cimino’s Medieval Swordsmen.  While they perform at many festivals all over the world, being [...]

The Wine Harvest – Making wine in Italy

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4 years ago
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Tweet  I remember my mother telling me about her move to Southern California, and how excited she was the first time she picked an orange off a tree and ate it right there.  I was thinking, like… ok, big deal… you need to get out more!  But then again, she was from New York, and I had [...]

Soccer Fanaticism in Italy – Because they cant feed Christians to the lions anymore

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4 years ago
by Michael in , , , ,
TweetI love Football (Go USC!) & Baseball (Go Dodgers!).. I’m an American after all.  But I have never been able to sink my heart into Soccer. So having spent all of these years in Italy, I’ve never been to a serious professional Soccer match.  I’ve been to the small ones, but never [...]

Would you have a second home in Italy?

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4 years ago
by Michael in ,
TweetIt used to be that when I would come to Italy, for the first few days, people would see me and give me a huge ‘welcome back’.  That was then.  I would come here once a year in the summer and spend a month to six weeks here.  Michael and Paola are here… it must be summer, right?  Big [...]

The 40th Annual Chestnut Festival (Sagra delle Castagne) Schedule – 2007

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4 years ago
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TweetThe 40th Annual Chestnut Festival (Sagra delle Castagne) Schedule – 2007 Every year, during the first two weeks of October, Soriano nel Cimino hosts a festival that surrounds the chestnut harvest. This festival is done on a large scale, and attracts thousands of people from [...]

Slow down and let your vacation happen

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4 years ago
by Michael in ,
TweetHave you ever been on a vacation and come home having the feeling that you need a vacation from your vacation?  Have you ever phoned home and said something to the effect of ‘We’re exhausted, but we’ve seen this, and that, and that, and that, and that’?  When you plan trips, do you [...]

Your second trip to Italy may be your first

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4 years ago
by Michael in ,
TweetWe’ve been renting homes to travelers for over a  year now, and I’ve noticed two distinct groups of people: ‘Italy first-timers’ and ‘Italian culture chasers’.  In all honesty, some, albeit very few, of the first-timers truly resemble the culture chasers.  The ‘first-timers’ are the [...]
The Tuscia in Jazz Festival

The Tuscia in Jazz Festival

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4 years ago
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TweetFor the first time, Soriano hosted the Tuscia in Jazz Festival.  This international festival had been held in nearby Ronciglione for the past five years, but apparently that town had complained about the noise and decided they didn’t want it anymore.  The festival promoter, Italo [...]

Finding Italy through London Fog this XMas

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5 years ago
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TweetOn Tuesday, December 19th at around 4:30 PM we sat at the departure gate in Los Angeles waiting to board our flight.  It had already been a very long day for us, and we were looking forward to a 10 hour flight to London with a connection that would take us to Rome.  It was me, Paola, [...]

Living Mangers in Italy

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5 years ago
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TweetA tradition in Italy during Christmas time is the living manger.  Many towns go way beyond a simple manger scene, and produce a full scale reproduction of Bethlehem.   What makes it so special in many cases, is that they have the landscape and existing structures to really make it [...]

One too many Margaritas for Uncle Ben

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5 years ago
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TweetAs you travel the world, you continuously run across things you never thought you might.  Some are big, some are minor. All Uncle Ben is good for in the states is rice, but it seems he has been secretly spending some time south of the border.  If you want mexican food products in [...]
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