Progress!

Hi there! Yes, back again. Work is really progressing on the B&B area these days. I’m surprised, because Italy tends to be like France, where the whole country goes on vacation in August. What’s happening this week is really significant: the pool will receive it’s internal lining and the fill around the outside, and the landscaping should be finished – well, not the landscaping is not done but the earth-moving is complete. Then, we’ll get to the gardening to finish things off (well, sort-of, a garden is never finished).

I expect next week to be a disaster; it’s a mid-summer holiday season called ”ferragosto” that runs from the 11th to the 19th of August (at least this year). EVERYBODY is on vacation during ferragosto, even the vacationers! However, the neighboring village of Villanova is having their 20th “Sagra dello Macedonia” from the 15th to the 26th. For those of you who don’t know, “macedonia” is fruit cocktail. I scanned the advertisement for the Sagra; see below. There was one in July in Sciavo, a suburb of Marsciano, for beer (that was great; my beer shop was ignored, no wonder I'm closing it!), and one the same time as Villanova for "primi piatti" or first plates = pasta dishes in Ammeto, a neighborhood in Marsciano. The flyer is attractive and I scaned it also to add it to the entry.

Ciao for now…

Craig