Hello Angela!
Thank you so much for creating the amazing Trasimeno Music Festival! I had a wonderful time - music that felt so powerfully personal, cameraderie among concert goers, truly gala dinners with new friends and the comfortable, exotic setting combined to make me feel part of the festival rather than an observer.
I will never forget the feeling of sitting in the cool evening breeze, enjoying wonderful music playing just a few metres away; and being able to glance up at any time to the starry night sky. What an incredible luxury! (Though I’m still not sure - how could it possibly be a summer evening if there are no mosquitos? Very confusing for an under-travelled Canadian!) The Trasimeno Festival was an amazing experience Angela so thanks and congratulations! Hopefully you have taken time to bask in the glory of such success!
It still seems impossible to have been in such a beautiful place; able to enjoy boat rides to the villages along the lakeshore, walk among the lines of olive trees or along forest ridges (even meeting a wild goat - it was huge!) and tour lovely hill towns with their casual scatterings of ancient neighborhoods, castles and churches. Possibilities for the daytime tours seemed endless - always more to explore - always more gelato! It all seems a unreal as I look back on it.
It is strange to write all this but I sometimes try to picture how it compares with your experience of that week. ‘Guess you didn’t have much time for contemplating the wonders of olive trees!
I hope you are well, happy and content so you can be thoroughly thrilled with these “other-worldly” projects you set up for yourself! Like the taxi driver said: “sounds relaxin’ !’’
Sincerely,
Cathy