A fantastic time, so far ...

Back home in Umbria, having fun with Hilda the goat !

We arrived in New York a little tired, but very excited about exploring this incredible  city. Luckily,  we have some very dear friends living there , who dropped everything in order to show us the sites and take us to some great restaurants. No more burgers for us. Brunch in a restaurant owned by Robert Dinero, unfortunately  he wasn’t there and dinner in a fantastic  Asian fusion restaurant in the  Chelsea area of Manhattan. All really, really good. Mostly though , we spent our time walking around being amazed by all the chaos . I guess we are just country people at hart.

After a few days we flew home to find that spring had finally  arrived in our little Umbrian village . The sun was shinning and all our animals were waiting excitedly  to greet us. Our good friend Elena had been taking care of them whilst we had been away and now they were looking at us rather accusingly .

It felt good to be back home ,but there was no time to relax . Nick jumped straight into cutting the grass and i had nine wonderful people over for a cooking morning.

Plus , we had to finish advertising  the cooking classes  i will be running in London this May with my very good friend Lorna . please check out  the details at the bottom of the page .

Lets just hope that the rest of the year continues like this . I really have had  a fantastic time so far.