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In Search of La Dolce Vita

In Search of La Dolce Vita

http://duncanc.blogspot.com

Meanderings and musings of a South African-German couple and their American son as they make a new life in Italy

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  • Cosmopolitan rural Italy

    Posted on Saturday July 12th, 2008 at 09:21

    Our local village's annual arts in the street festival (Arti Strada) is on again right now. It's brilliant - top class music, dance, magicians, performance art, painting and sculpture, along with the requisite stalls selling perfumed candles, rings,...

  • Our garden in pictures

    Posted on Saturday July 12th, 2008 at 07:45

    A few pictures from our own little plot of turf. While some of the colourful products of our garden had us to thank for their robust vibrance, many are entirely free of our intervention, helpful or otherwise.First up, a few cherries. Delicious they...

  • The three P's of wisdom in rural Italy

    Posted on Thursday July 10th, 2008 at 03:43

    As things start taking on a semblance of normality, there is occasionally the time to think. Make no mistake, there is still plenty to do before we could say the house is "phase 1 finished":- light fixtures to replace the blatant wires and bare bulb...

  • A Grande day - in pictures

    Posted on Sunday July 6th, 2008 at 05:01

    The visual companion to the verbal version chronicled here. (Note also that if you click on the picture it opens full-size.)...

  • A Grande day

    Posted on Monday June 30th, 2008 at 09:31

    Up in the Apennine mountains in a bowl surrounded by soft, curved hills is a wonderful place. It’s called Piano Grande, and is actually just across the regional border in Umbria. It’s famous for its thin-skinned lentils grown in checkered field...

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robin Said:

Love your blog...I am a huge Italy lover!!!! Keep the pic's coming!

Rating: 7 | Posted: Friday May 18th, 2007 at 21:43 | More Reviews From mymelange | Report This Comment

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