Bella Italia

We just got back from almost 3 weeks in Bella Italia. As usual it was a great trip. We flew from Florida to Philadelphia to Rome and then drove the 4.5 hours south to our home in southern Campania.

Our mountain through a screened window

As we opened up the house to face a years dust, we discovered that our refrigerator was not working. When we closed the place down last year, we turned off the main circuit breaker and opened the refrigerator door. As I thought about this new and frustrating problem, I remembered we had an air conditioner installed while we were gone. We also changed electric companies and had requested an automatic withdrawal from our account in Italy, which did not happen. The AC people told us that there was no electric in the house. Our electric was turned off since the bill was not paid. After many calls and emails the bill was paid and the electric turned back on. The AC people must have left the circuit breaker turned on. The refrigerator started up since the door was open and ran and ran until it burned out.

Oh well we were on vacation and needed a refrigerator. We bought a new one and a clothes washer and had them installed.

New refrigerator and washer

Now we were ready to enjoy ourselves. As we did our wash, we were reminded of how nice it was to hang clothes outside to dry. They dry very quickly in the brisk mountain air and smell so good. OK now we needed a glass of wine …

Views with a glass of wine

More to come on this magnificent trip!

– George