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Welcome and Benvenuti to all my lovely followers around the World,

Now for all you lovely people who have never seen or eaten Wild Tuscan Asparagus, I thought I should take a foto before I madly start eating the stuff again!  I love it!  I spoke about it last week, so I won’t go on about it too much.  But anyway, if you are in Tuscany and want to go on a hunt, this is what it looks like!  Foto J Finnigan.

One of my other loves is of course Rock Music and these hills are full of great musicians, artists and other artisans.  But what about this, a music studio in a restored fattoria in the Tuscan countryside!  It’s a dream come true!  It is owned and run by the American record producer Rick Rubin, who apparently costs a fortune to work with.  His clients have included many top recording artists, some loved him, some didn’t.  But anyway, his taste in locations cannot be faulted and if one is going to work in a music studio and can afford the fees…….!

One such artist who might consider this is the hugely popular Claudio Baglioni, who is currently on a massive Italian tour, performing with hardly a break, right up until the end of April!  The Italians love this home-grown artist who is celebrating 50 years in pop/rock music!

Meanwhile, back in Fiano over coffee, I read an article about Montalbano.  It is not surprising to hear that his TV episodes, books and other media outlets have exported 150% more than any other fictional series in Italy.

(A very unhappy film maker friend of my man, turned down the rights to this series before it went live!)  I, for one, have read all the books, watched all the TV series including Young Montalbano and can’t wait to read or view more.  The series has even been inspirational for my book The Italian Connection. 

Now, what else?  Oh yes, very important.  A friend of mine who loves the Hunk of the Month series, nominated the gorgeous son of Andrea Boccelli.  Have you seen him performing with his dad?  Well you really should get hold of their recording release, Fall on Me, it’s absolutely beautiful. You Tube  And here is a picture of Matteo; they say that Italy has some of the best looking men in the world, what do you think? Foto official website.

OK, time to get back to the day job.  Am a little late with this blog, sorry about that, but I hope you enjoy it nonetheless.

Have a great week and do drop me a line, visit my website for all my contact details My Site

Salute June.

Fotos – all newspaper articles with fotos are extracted from La Reppublica.