Recent Italian Trip
Just returned from yet another lovely trip to Calabria in Southern Italy. This was our 12 th annual trip, many of the group have been on all occasions as trips like this are popular; we share an interest/passion for needlepoint; enjoy the unique opportunity to stitch in attractive surroundings and as far as possible have an all-in price. All of them, besides being enthusiastic stitchers are great photographers. I have been the recipient of many, many beautiful memories of the trip and it will be difficult job to select those that I include in this blog. Calabria is still a relatively unknown area of Italy, Pirapora the Agro tourism family run place we go is on the West coast looking out across the beautiful turquoise sea to Stromboli and the island of Sicily. This year both the weather and the visibility were perfect, the sunsets over Stromboli – were picture perfect; Each year during the winter ...