AN ITALIAN FESTIVE ‘STRUDEL’ in Assisi – the ‘City of Saints’

We couldn’t have arrived at a more perfect time. The setting sun was throwing it’s last rays on Assisi’s medieval walls and majestic Basilica, gently painting each stone a shimmering, dusky rose and transforming the whole town into a glowing beacon of warmth and peace …. one could almost feel a divine presence standing there…… Continue reading AN ITALIAN FESTIVE ‘STRUDEL’ in Assisi – the ‘City of Saints’

CHILLING WITH ROSES & ANGELS: An Easy Rosewater & Watermelon Granita

In this relentless heat we’re having at the moment, I’m becoming more and more like a rose every day. Sadly not in the way of looking beautiful or having a gorgeously heady and fragrant aroma, but in the way they shut down when it gets too hot or too dry! According to ‘Fine Gardening’ magazine…… Continue reading CHILLING WITH ROSES & ANGELS: An Easy Rosewater & Watermelon Granita