Family Vacation

Family Vacation

My family and I spent a week last summer in a converted hay barn located in the heart of the Umbrian countryside. Being from the American Midwest, I had never seen anything like it.

The private drive to the house was lined with immense poplar trees that rustled in the breeze and offered a respite from the blazing sun. We arrived at the house and took it all in. To one side, there were golden fields of mown hay. To the south, was a lush vineyard, it's fruit beginning to ripen for the autumn harvest. To the ...