The stunningly scenic acre of gently-sloping, south-facing land bordered by olive groves that we bought in Abruzzo after moving permanently from England a year ago is coming along a treat. Soon, it’ll provide our new home; your three Abruzzo holiday villas; and a swimming pool. Now we just have to transform an Abruzzo building site into an Abruzzo garden…
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Pescara 2009 will be the biggest sports festival that Abruzzo’s ever staged. Like the Olympics, the Mediterranean Games takes place every four years and is a multi-event spectacular - but it features 30 different sports, while at the Olympics, you can see only 26. Pescara 2009 will be only the third occasion that an Italian city has hosted the Mediterranean Games since they were first held at Alexandria in Egypt in 1951.

(Click on the headline title above to find out more about this sporting extravaganza in Abruzzo next year - and where and how to watch. Or even be a part of it !)

Abruzzo festa - invariably terrific. Abruzzo music - invariably not.

But just this once, on that warm October evening…we heard a band who were so outstandingly and blindingly good, they held us - and everyone else within earshot - happily spellbound.

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