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Michael & Peggy Hunt moved from Pembrokeshire to Italy two years ago.
They now live on the Tuscan / Umbrian border in Locanda Delle Rose among 300 olive trees, enquiring neighbours and over-familiar wildlife.
"Oddly, it is not so different from Pembrokeshire at all, " they say. "We have felt at home from the very beginning."


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Posted at 10:00am Wednesday 1st February 2012

Jan 2012 - What happened to Winter?

Bang went New Year and the computer but blue skies above.

Posted at 10:30am Friday 20th January 2012

Christmas Cheer December 2011

Unease about the future but this didn't stop the Italians ejoying themselves and cooking up a storm of goodies for the festive season.

Posted at 10:00am Thursday 1st December 2011

November 2011 Olives, Truffles & Omlette

Olive harvest,truffle season and a world record omelett

Posted at 9:00am Tuesday 1st November 2011

October 2011 Birds, Beast and Bulbs

Bats in the bedroom,deer, hunters and instant autumn, its all go as usual

Posted at 1:00pm Saturday 1st October 2011

September 2011 Still Hot Stuff

Record weather, getting lost and finding castles and palaces worth visiting.

Posted at 12:00pm Saturday 1st October 2011

August 2011 Astonishing to Amazing

From pool robots to computer crashes

Posted at 11:29am Sunday 31st July 2011

July 2011- Charity begins at home

The charity coffee morning = organized chaos. New table top, pea green pool, deer on the rampage and a rock concert and its just the start of the holiday season.

Posted at 6:03pm Friday 1st July 2011

June 2011

All flash and a bang, so much happening, fiestas, sagras and storms, exploding loos and machinery along with family and friends arriving and departing its been a whirlwind of never ending excitement and angst.

Posted at 1:55pm Saturday 28th May 2011

May 2011

A month of comings and goings - friends leaving and a plague of caterpillars arriving - and the start of the food festival season kicks off with wild asparagus.

Posted at 12:30pm Sunday 1st May 2011

April 2011

Spring arrives with crazy weather, the start of the festivals Easter and THE WEDDING from the Italian point of view

Posted at 1:10pm Friday 1st April 2011

March 2011

150th celebrations of a unified Italy and the later arrival of spring

Posted at 10:30am Tuesday 1st March 2011

February 2011

Olive tree pruning and Carnival month

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Michael & Peggy Hunt moved from Pembrokeshire to Italy two years ago. They now live on the Tuscan / Umbrian border in Locanda Delle Rose among 300 olive trees, enquiring neighbours and over-familiar wildlife. "Oddly, it is not so different from Pembrokeshire at all, " they say. "We have felt at home from the very beginning. "

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