Living in Umbria has been a wonderful growing experience about learning to take expectations from an Italian dream and spin them into a satisfying reality. The big thing I found was to never lose heart when things looked too big and too difficult from the perspective of newness and language difficulties. It\\\’s so easy to kill one\\\’s dream with wild expectations! Living here is fun and every day brings new sights, sounds, friendliness and generosity. I enjoyed the plum recipe. Thanks Julia!

Hi, Inez. How come I don’t already know you if we’re neighbors?