Monthly Archive: July 2021

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Civitella del Tronto

Saved for a rainy day We are driving on a country road, peering through rain-splattered windows, when someone remarks, predictably, that it would all look so much better if the sun were shining. It could be Scotland We are in the province of Teramo, heading for Civitella del Tronto, and the morning that started out dull and unpromising has become wild and wet. But even on this rain-swept day the landscape has its own beauty: the patchwork fields fringed by woodland, the mist ribboning the mountains in the distance.  There’s not a soul about – only a few sheep that pause in their munching and raise their sodden heads...