Dear Unctuous Umbrians,
Today we farewelled the lovely aged terrier of our agritorismo Benny, the shrewd schimmying character who would sidle up at the breakfast table in hope of a stray piece of cheese or ham from your plate. We took photos of him before we left and headed to Umbria, a mere two hours down the autostrada.
As we neared the place that our evil GPS said we were destined, we started to panic. If there was a Beirut end to Italy we seemed to be in it! It was god awful ugly and that's the nicest thing we could say about it. It looked like the Grollo Construction father and sons had built the entire building stock. In fact,it looked like their compound in down town Thornbury and trust me- that is NOT a pretty site - proving yet again money does not guarantee taste!
Fortunately, with only moments and kilometers to spare, we started to climb the hillside and climb we did. We ended up overlooking the entire valley of Umbria and our place is in the key position with it's horizon pool, front and centre! We had arrived in paradise having recently been in a parking lot ( "Melanie - circa 1970's)
This beautiful place was position atopnthe cliff overlooking the entire valley and our hosts Stephano and Pauola are just wonderful. More tomorrow folks but we are very happy and were upgraded to the mega suite to boot!!
Tres heavenly
Kelly &Siobhan
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