There must be a strong reason why a group of well educated foreign adults decides to spend a 5-days vacation in Umbria. I said Umbria, yes, not Italy. What are you going to do for 5 days, all of them to be spent in Umbria???!!!!! Umbria is not so well known and celebrated. Umbria is small, slow, surrounded by mountains, closed.
Umbria is an intimate place, a land of the spirit. That’s why some days together can be incredibly rich and intimate, that’s why they can touch people’s lives. It is shared experience for all of our senses.
A friend of mine told me: “You have to act as if you had some very good friends of yours coming to visit you: you not only want to show them things, you want to tell them about your life, about your Umbria, you want to share experiences”. And that’s waht we do.
We visit beautiful places, but you know, those are everywhere, all around the World. What is more important is how we do it.
We let people feel how Umbrians eat, talk, the smells they breathe in their houses, in the local places where you go buy the good olive oil, where you get the real cheese, the smell of a truffle which has just been dig out by a young dog wagging its tail. We lead them along the walks we take on Sunday after or before the big family lunch, we take them in the beautiful mountains where you can take refuge in a cozy locanda and have some warm soup and cold cuts while the storm ululates outside; we let them feel the smell of the pressed vines in a family run winery; we let them stop by the river to watch the “Fario” an the “Rainbow” trouts and to walk in a silent medieval village at riposo time, when also ducks protest at our arrival, because we make a little noise. We let them enter a silen forest, just to see some caves, to watch the trees and take a look at the view.
I am not celebrating how good we are, but just how passionately we live and love our land and how happy we are when we find people who are truly interested in “feeling” the real stuff. These people don’t want to rush and grab as much as they can: they want to savour things, they want it to be slow.
Suddenly they become friends and a job turns into a pleasure.
As someone very smartly wrote: “A joy for your senses”.
In order to give guests all of this, we are going to propose three different 5-days itineraries in Umbria, which we have conceived together with a friend of ours, Daniela, of Tasting Travel. Both of us are in love with our region and would like to offer it to visitors as it really is, as we live it every day.
That’s why each of our next 3 posts will be about a different kind of tour, which can be realized and guided by us all throught 2012.
EXPERIENCE UMBRIAN FOOD - Let’s discover truffle, olive oil, wine and cheese
EXPERIENCE UMBRIAN CULTURE
EXPERIENCE UMBRIAN NATURE
