We wish you a Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year from Casa Verde, especially all our visiting guests and friends this year to our house in the hills above Pescia in Tuscany. We have had our first snow a few weeks ago, as pictured here. Hopefully, we are now set for some dry, crisp and brilliantly sunny winter days. These are the days to venture out on one of our favorite activities….walking around these spectacular mountains and valleys. OK we may not be as adventurous as some of our guests, who really tramped around for miles in the heat of the summer (Yes! I mean you Peter, Yoshiko and your family). For us it is in the winter when the days still linger long past 5 o’clock in the afternoon and the clarity of the air means that from any vantage point you can see so far, and every line and crevice in the mountains and in the valley bottom is sharply defined. A day out with a tasty picnic and a hot drink, a camera and a bar of chocolate is the perfect way to spend a day here. Then to return back to Casa Verde, light the wood-burning ‘stufa’ and settle down by the fire. (Yes we are open for business in the Winter and there is now a new wood-burner & new double glazing in the apartment!!)
December 18, 2012
Christmas: A most ‘wander-full’ time of the year.
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November 20, 2011
Autumn in Barga
Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: Alpi Apuane, Alpi Apuane hills, Appennines, Autumn in Barga, Barga, Duomo of San Cristofero, Florence, Garfagnana, Italy, Lucca, Pescia, Pisa, Romanesque, Romanesque churches — Darren & Malcolm @ 10:21 am
Many of our visitors to Casa Verde head off for the great triumpherate Tuscan cities of Lucca, Florence and Pisa; all within an hours drive from Pescia. However, there are some stunningly beautiful parts of our area that not all travellers manage to see. One of these areas lies around 40 miles away from here over the hills and valleys of the lower Appennines to the Garfagnana and the Serchio valley. The town of Barga is the jewel in its crown. A lovely fairy tale place set on a hilly promontory overlooking the craggy marble magnificence of the Alpi Apuane hills, and topped by what I think is one of the most unique and glorious of Romanesque churches in Italy.