ITALY CAN ONLY BE A DREAM FOR NOW

Panicale ( Umbria)

I was expecting this news from Brussels yet when it was made official

I was struck by how devastated I felt. The European Union was opening up

to outside nations but  not to the United States.

Our friends in Italy told us about their three month lockdown which was

extreme and enforced. They did not like it, but they complied and now Italy

has very few Covid-19 cases.  Who can blame the EU for not admitting

Americans? I live in New England and in this region of the U.S. where
the cases of Covid -19 have been low and are declining. We

followed the stay at home orders and are wearing masks. Many of the

States in the South and West have had their heads in the sand on 

the seriousness of Covid-19  and are now seeing the cases rise dramatically

in those regions. Please, wear a mask and follow social distancing
measures......it's not that difficult and the results are enormous.

The world is a changed place, Italy, America and 

anywhere you put your finger on a global map,

 due to this pandemic.

 The sun still rises each morning , beyond that no one

knows. All I do know is that James and I will not be returning to Italy as

soon as we'd like.  

We will miss seeing great works of art

in  places such as Florence, Rome, Assisi, Montefalco, Ravenna, and Venice. 

  We will miss eating the foods from

the fields and farms of Umbria and Tuscany and drinking the wines. We will

not be seeing the very same landscapes that Perugino or Raphael looked at and painted.

We will not be sitting in the piazza drinking our morning cappuccino at the bar. We will not 

be having an October lunch in our friends olive grove while the harvest is on 

or eating fresh umbrichelli pasta with truffles being shaved over the top in

a local restaurant.   

But most of all we will miss our friends and all the kind people 

we have gotten to know through the years of spending time at home in Panicale .
To everyone, we will return.

A few memories to hang on to.................

Panicale with Lake Trasimeno

Perugino

Rome rooftops and St. Ivo

Venice

Sardegna 

Umbria landscape

Panicale

I did not include  pictures of everyone and  of  all of our friends but we are dearly

thinking of you all.

abbracci tutti!