Contents Journal from Orto a Cumbrian


Last year, Charles Mitchell and Cynthia Fletcher retired from Cumbria to the region of Marche in Italy. Leaving behind busy schedules, their new life revolves around their old farm house and the creation of their garden, their orto. After neighboor Franco finally arrives to plough the terraces, Cinzia can start planting out her veg...Charles tells the story.


Second entry – May 2011 W


e’ve been away from our new home in Italy for much of the Spring; spending the first half of March in Keswick for


the Words by the Water literature festival, and then rushing off to catch a flight for Sicily to celebrate Cinzia’s birthday as soon as the festival was over. Then April seemed to rush by with sequential visits from friends and relatives interspersed with too many short visits back to the UK . Sicily for Cinzia’s birthday was great. We’re terrible speedy tou-


rists. Most ‘travellers’ would be horrified that we ‘did’ most of Sicily’s Greek, Roman and Medieval remains by tea-time on the day after we arrived, leaving us only the desire to eat more fa-


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