There’s something special about the European countryside. Although completely different countries, I’ve experienced a similar peace here in Olivella as back in Umbria. The slowness, the sun dropping behind the rolling hills each evening, the quiet… it’s very different than New World California. You haven’t seen all of Europe until you spend time in the countryside, where people have lived simply yet fully for thousands of years. We have much to be proud of as a species, and one of them is the perfection of living right, in accordance with the beauty and bounty of nature.