This is the life! Le Dolce Vita

April 2010

Unfortunately our camera broke during our last visit in September 2009, so no blogs were posted since March.

We did manage to get the lions share of work done to make the house habitable, so our next visit in April 2010 was finally a real vacation! In spite of the volcanic ash from Iceland that crippled the air industry, we did manage to fly out on the 22nd instead of the 20th, so only lost 2 days of vacation.

Rudi's mother Sien: in a guilded cage?

The kitchen

View from kitchen to the living room

kitchen view towards staircase (notice lovely new handrail!)

view from living room to kitchen

relaxing in living room

living room

living room

guest bedroom (bless this guest!)

guest bedroom (new wardrobe & Rudi's handmade dressing table)

stairway looking down (look at the new handrail!)

upstairs landing (painted concrete & stenciled)

lovely new handrail for staircase

Renato fixed the balcony in February 2010 while Rudi was there working

Now that they cleared the hill you can see our shed from the road below

The waterfall below our house

NOW IT'S VACATION TIME!

War Memorial on Memorial Day in Fara San Martino

ME!

Memorial Day in Fara San Martino