More from Italia...

After revisiting photos I have found many that were not posted but are still totally worth a view. 

Many of these photos are from around the Umbria area be it the chocolate festival in Corciano or the days in Assisi. Enjoy! 

The tracks that lead to the lake and Roma and beyond. 

Waiting for the train.

Isola Maggiore's little chapel 

Bring your pet to lunch in Sienna. This is in the Campo. 

Interior courtyard of a church in Siena. 

Di Campo in Siena, where the bi-yearly horse race takes place. 

Another view of Di Campo

Pigeons in the fountain of Siena

Caffe con Nutella = Heaven

Traditional Siena beverage, kind of a sweet wine. We enjoyed it at the sports bar.

Fall at the Villa Pieve

Girls and their grandfather enjoying the Chocolate Festival marching band

The church before the Table of Silence was performed. 

Building in Assisi

The Table of Silence plates arranged and set.

Prior to the show in Assisi

Table of Silence in Assisi and vacation in Porta Paglia, Sardegna

Rosella Vasta's 'Table of Silence' was performed in Assisi the week before we all headed out on vacation. I was able to get some shots. Lighting was pretty dark so I resorted to high ISO... not my favorite thing to do ever, but you have to do what you have to do :) 

Vacation in Sardegna, Italy brought McDonald's back into our lives. The cups had some great symbols for throwing away garbage. 

The next shots are views from our beach. It was as if we had a private beach the entire week because most of the locals were on vacation as well, and not hanging out on the beach. 

On our three mile walk into town we past many great sites, beautiful local foliage and tree pods. 

Our dinner made with fresh home grown tomatoes and basil from the kind lady in town who had a vegetable stand. There was nothing better than these fresh veggies!

Washed up boat, it may not be there anymore due to a big storm that came through the last day we were in town. 

Grilled Hobo packets dinner, it was so good. 

Night shots

Cioccolatto e Pane Borg and Table of Silence

This weeks happenings included a wonderful performance of a marching-dancing band called the Perugia Funking Band at Corciano's Cioccolatto e Pane Borg. We also were able to take photos for one of the family members of the villa. Rosella Vasta is a local artist and daughter of our villa parents. She has been working on a project called Table of Silence for the past few years. The project began as a ceramic dishes line and then grew into a dance performance. The performance was done at the Lincoln Center in New York on September 11th. It is a very powerful performance, more so in person. I was able to take photos of the dancers in practice as well as at the performance (those photos will be up later). 

Villa Pieve and Euro Chocolate Fest

We have arrived at the villa where we will be for the next 6 weeks or so. We are surrounded by vineyards and a wonderful rolling landscape. Enjoy... 

One of our neighbor vineyards

The vineyards and the local gravel pit 

Above is an example of the tropicale fiori that we found up the hill from our villa. A local man came out to explain that it was a 'tropicale fiori' and we didn't understand much more than that. So here is what Americans call a passion flower. 

This cappuccino comes from our local kiss kiss bar, a great place to enjoy company... and purchase bus tickets. 

Sunset through the bamboo forest. 

Star trails over our castle 

Euro Chocolate festival 

Chocolate Kebab! Appetizing to the eye, and very heavy to the stomach... but delicious all the same!

Fierenze

Fierenze was a wonderful city with a million things to see. Unfortunately for photographers many of the the things that would be most fun to photograph are off limits. I was able to capture a bit of the Santa Maria Di Fiori and Brunaleschi's duomo. 

Reflections of the Church 

The West Facade

Another West Facade reflection 

In Fierenze there was a carousel that we decided to ride. It was fun picture opportunity!

This last picture is of the wild boar in a piazza in Fierenze. Apparently if you pet the boar you will have good luck and are destined to return to Fierenze for some reason.