Category Archives: Toscana
Goodbye for now, Italy!
As with most good things (and luckily a fair few bad ones), it all must come to an end. On a nice day in September, the sky akin to Microsoft’s Windows 98 screen saver, we gave the car back to … Continue reading
Posted in Emilia Romagna, Europe, Italy, Toscana, Veneto
Tagged Contrada, Europe, Ferrara, Fleetwood Mac, Grand Tour, Hills, Italia, Italy, Marco Pantani, Middle Age, Milan, Montalcino, Palio, Papa, Pienza, Pope, Popery, San Marco, San Quirico, Siena, Toscana, Tuscany, Val d'Orcia, Veneto, Venezia, Venice
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Chaos theory applied to abbeys.
Sometimes you don’t make it, sometimes you break it. Ian Malcom explained it in Jurassic Park, circa 1993. A butterfly can flap its wings in Peking and in Central Park you get rain instead of sunshine. A single valley, two abbeys, … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, Italy, Toscana
Tagged 1348 Plague, Abbey, Black Death, Chaos Theory, Christianity, Cistercian, Faith, Galgano, Italia, Italy, Jurassic Park, Knights, Middle Ages, Monks, Nunnery, San Galgano, Sant'Antimo, Sword in stone, Toscana, Tuscany, Val d'Orcia
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Of the intrinsic beauty and harmonious forms of Tuscan hills.
I come from a region where the land is alternatively very flat – filled with rice paddies, corn fields and factories – or very mountainous. There’s really not much of an alternative; it’s either flat as a ruler or climbs … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, Italy, Toscana
Tagged Cappella di Vitaleta, Chapel of vitaleta, Corn, Europa, Europe, Hills, Italia, Italy, San Quirico d'Orcia, September, Siena, Summer, Toscana, Tuscany, Val d'Orcia, Vineyard, Wine
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