Since we arrived back in Cortona a week ago we have pretty much just been relaxing and meeting up with old and new friends. We have just been enjoying the experience of once again being in one of the most beautiful places on earth.

It is such a joy to walk down Via Natzionale the main (and only flat street) in town and see all of the familiar faces and get to meet so many new ones. Catching up with the wonderful people we have come to know over the years, finding out how they have been doing. Also, sadly finding out that a very sweet friend who was not well has closed her shop doors and faded away.

In Cortona it seems that their aren’t strangers, just friends you haven’t met yet. The common thread is that we have all arrived here for one thing, the hope to be able to share in the beauty, peace, history and magic that is Cortona.