the detail of Casa Marinelli: 2

I was recently visiting Casa Marinelli. It was a hot day with the first intense light of summer, but inside this abandoned house it felt deliciously cool. Stepping inside you enter a calmness, a darkness, dust upon dust, layer upon layer of the stuff of centuries and an inexplicable feeling of calm.

football and gelati

Summer has arrived along with new flavours of gelati too numerous to mention. And of course we have the mondiale (World Cup) to prepare for next week, a wonderful event that unites the community if not the world. I find the trick is to combine these two pleasures and starting next week I shall sample my way from limone to cioccolato, melone to tiramisu during the first rounds. Hopefully by the semi-finals I will have discovered the flavour I like, along with a team to support. But choice is never easy. Should I choose pistacchio and Italia, fragole and England or perhaps the seductive combination of tutti frutti and Brazil ..