the view in and out of Capalbio

…like all great medieval Italian hilltowns (we are in the Maremma of Southwest Tuscany), provides that brilliant vivid contrast between the feeling of dense urbanism on the inside, and the seemingly infinite expanse of rolling rural cultivated countryside on outside, just on the other side of the fortified walls – reminding me of my romantic long term life plan to live in a village with lots of friends surrounded by animals and gardens – where we can pursue our work alone or together while enjoying the pleasures of a wild life in a miniature city?