Out There & In Here

WINTRY TALES FROM THE APENNINES

It’s not what you think

(It’s just 10 seconds)

Happy as I had been for hours today reading the Sunday papers at the fireside here in Abruzzo, my Calvinistic upbringing eventually compelled me to Get Off My Backside around 3pm and I took a fast motorway drive to the other side of the mountain in the image below. Translated into English it’s called – as many mountains are – the ‘Big Horn’ ( Corno Grande ).

It may be a common name for a mountain, but it’s the only version you get in Italy, and it’s here in the region of Abruzzo. Also, bleak, isolated villages like this one give everything around here the other-worldy quality I love.