ArtStudio Ginestrelle

Art Studio Ginestrelle : named after the  flower that covers the mountain yellow in summer: "GINESTRA, A TALL SHRUB WITH YELLOW FLOWERS WITH MEDICINAL USES SUCH AS HYPERTENSITY AND DIARHEE"
High up in the mountain in the National Park I am staying in an old but renovated farmhouse now an art residency. My host is a lovely youg lady: Marina Merli who speaks beautiful english with a lovely italian accent. I flew with Air France and I must say thet the service and crew were great, aircraft modern with a screen attached to your seat,  to view your own choice of movie any time during the flight.
From Paris I flew with a smaller aircraft and could not believe the beauty of the landscape when we flew over the Swiss Alps  it was like a "chocolate box picture" with snow on the mountain tops....
From Florence I took the train to Assisi and had to transfer at one stage with my heavy suitcase, luckly   a young Italian gentlemen  helped me get down the staircase to the other side.
Marina fetched me from the train station and now I am here at Ginestrelle!...long way from home but quite content.Had lovely lunch (home coocked) with Marina and her mother today, (with  good tasting organic wine  from this region ).  Amazing how they can still buy fresh organic products from local farmers and neighbours. Also tasted  fig jam made by Marina,s mother.
went for a walk and was amazed by the beautful "autumn" colours...yellows, sienna, deep reds and oranges...all my kind of stuff.
My reis tot hiet het als goed afgeloop en ek is dankbaar...
Hier kan n mens stil word en die gejaag van die lewe agter laat.  Die koolstoof en die reuk van kos wat kook het my gedagtes ver terug geneem na my oupa en ouma se plaas in die Vrystaat..dis wonderlik hoe ,n reuk mens kan terugneem in tyd.
Ek sien uit daarna om  n tydjie hier te spandeer, tyd na aan de natuur en in gesprek met my Here.