The Cappella della Madonna di Vitaleta on the road from Pienza to San Quirico d'Orcia

In 2001 I came to live in Italy. I had some fun, wrote a journal and this is the blog of my story...

"Tuscany is a state of grace. The countryside is so lovingly designed that the eye sweeps the mountains and valleys without stumbling over a single stone. The lilt of the rolling green hills, the upsurging cypresses, the terraces sculptured by generations that have handled the rocks with skillful tenderness, the fields geometrically juxtaposed as though drawn by a draughtsman for beauty as well as productivity; the battlements of castles on the hills, their tall towers standing grey-blue and golden tan among the forest of trees, the air of such clarity that every sod of earth stands out in such dazzling detail. The fields ripening with barley and oats, beans and beets. The grape-heavy vines espaliered between the horizontal branches of silver-green olive trees, composing orchards of webbed design, rich in intimation of wine, olive oil and lacy-leaf poetry. Tuscany untied the knots in a man's intestines, wiped out the ills of the world. Italy is the garden of Europe, Tuscany is the garden of Italy, Florence is the flower of Tuscany." Irving Stone from my favourite book " The Agony and the Ecstacy" A fictional biography of Michelangelo



174. Fiorentina vs Bologna /Scotish market

A cold and miserable end to November and the same for the first week of December, but there is always Fiorentina! Piero has a couple of English friends who are coming over for the Bologna game, so I join them for what should be an easy win...

The rain doesn't ease up for the match and we scrape a 1-0 win - thank god! I would have been rather angry to have stood in the rain for two hours and seen Fiorentina lose!

At the moment there is a Scottish market on in Santa Maria Novella and I indulge in some Whisky tasting to warm myself up.. just the job on a cold and wet Saturday afternoon!




Viola - Braveheart!

(Original journal entry 5/12/04)
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