Well, actually, it's now Sunday afternoon. Right after I typed that sentence, I lost internet access.
Anyway, yesterday was a long day of travel. The drive from Puglia to Le Marche is about 5 hours, if you don't stop. Of course, we stopped for lunch at this tacky little beach town on the sea, and then took a more scenic route part of the way, so the whole thing took us about 7,5 hours. But we arrived at our villa outside of Macerata around 5:30 PM. And I gotta tell you, it's kinda beautiful here too.
The villa is an old monastery at the top of a hill.
It's a very peaceful and serene location. The terrain around here is much more hilly and agricultural. The main production is olives, of course grapes for wine, and sunflowers. Here's some grape vines in the vineyard that is part of our villa - Sant'Isidoro Winery.
The view from my room is spectacular. You can see for miles...
There are nice walking pathways around the grounds...
And of course, a lovely swimming pool.
Not a private pool though, but there are only 12 rooms in this villa, and not all of them are occupied. So, it doesn't seem very crowded,
Here's a picture of the fountain out front.
There are several small terraces where you can sit and enjoy the view and a nice glass of wine. This is the view from one of the terraces, and it's the spot I chose for my daily selfie yesterday.
Finally, as if it's not nice enough outside, there's a beautiful old library and sitting room, which is where I am right now because that's where you need to go to access Internet - not available in the rooms unfortunately, but not too inconvenient to come and sit down here.
I think this will be a fine place to spend another week in Italy. Plenty of ancient medieval towns on top of hills all around - we started exploring today, but it was raining, so I'll get better pictures posted in the next few days.
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