Place in Italy

''You can''t go and live there,'' a despairing friend remarked, ''it''s not even in Rome.''

And it certainly wasn''t, but still the author and his wife went to Avea, tucked away amongst the woods and gorges of the Lazio countryside.

There they found no Colosseum, or Pantheon; there were no Ferraris racing around the Palazzi Navona, Venezia or Farnese. Instead they discovered the true agony and beau...