Yes, I am obsessed with this mountain especially in the morning when I open the shutters and am faced with its beauty. Always such a joyous start to the day. The mountain was the main reason I fell in love with Val di Pozza. It was some time after that we decided to run our
Here are two pheasants on the track going up to Val di Pozza, home of Art Toscana Painting Holidays in Italy. I know our painting guests would love to see them when they are here on their Art Toscana Art Vacation in Italy. Maybe not if they come from the UK as pheasants are not
This is the path leading down to the beach through the Sicilian eucalyptus wood. Our guests at Art Toscana painting Holidays in Sicily often take a walk through the woods in the early morning for a quick dip in the sea. Even though there is a swimming pool at the hotel, the serious swimmers choose
Spring is here at Art Toscana, art vacations in Italy. It was 18°C today, several degrees higher than the normal temperature for this time of the year but a perfect temperature for painting in Italy. What a pretty picture this would make with the sun shining through the spring flowers.
This is one of the many moods portrayed by the mountain viewed from the bedroom windows at Art Toscana, art holidays in Italy. It’s twilight when the falling sun illuminates the red sky leaving the mountain in darkness.
This is the first year I can remember without any snow at Art Toscana painting vacations in Italy. However, we haven’t been deprived of rain and this week there is some snow on the Apuane Alps which you can see from Art Toscana, painting holidays in Italy. The little babbling brook, where in the summer,
I took this photo on New Years Day in the square of Saint Michael in Lucca (La Piazza di San Michele), a blue projection of stars and giant snowflakes falling on the Church of San Michele. On the free day of our Art Toscana painting holidays in Italy, most of our guests go to Lucca
On the Apennine side of the Garfagnana and Mid-Serchio Valley, at an altitude of 1,525 metres, lies the village of San Pellegrino Alpe, the highest village in the Aapennine mountains, once a stronghold for the territories defence system. It’s there, in Il Santaurio di San Pellegrino, a sanctuary for pilgrims who came to pay homage
Our dog Teddy had his first wash and brush up. Well, it took three hours for Manuela to comb through every part of him, shower, shampoo and condition him, and then dry him with the hair dryer before a final comb through. Teddy can look forward to another grooming in May before our guests at