“Hi Adrian, despite our best efforts we made up out of the Termini in Rome and all the way to Modena – picked up our Fiat and made out way to your beautiful house with only one minor detour easily corrected – Norm took your advice and just kept heading for the Pasa Redici!!! Worked a treat. Jill met us and Norm and I quickly made our way to Palagano for stores – well just the staples….. bread cheese ham wine…. Perfect! Yesterday we had a jarmi day – read books (thanks Barb!) and just chilled. Today, we have spent the whole day driving and walking around – what an amazing place – everywhere looks like a postcard The scenery is just breath taking – there is still snow on the top of the mountains – we made it to the top after we turned up the road at Costrignano and took the alternate route thru to Palagano – amazing!! Even found the huge illuminated cross at the very top of via Panoramica up near Minento – very interesting the main roads we have been on – can’t even think what the minor roads must be like!! But it’s really easy to get around and Norm is finding the driving really cruisy – not much traffic and good conditions – well signed very easy to get around We got caught out this afternoon in Palagano desperate for a coffee at 3 having to wait until 4 for something to open lol!! Gave up waiting for the butcher at 430 – such a different culture – can you imagine if we all decided that we wouldn’t harvest between 1 and 4pm ?? The weather is absolutely perfect the days are sunny and we can’t quite believe how lucky we are to be in this beautiful part of the world – you and Barbara have done such a wonderful job on the house it us so welcoming and beautiful we feel so relaxed and happy and can’t thank you enough Ciao.”