the secret garden at a friend's place in Castel San Pietro

…is the tiny hill town an hour north of Rome near Poggio Mirteto  where I am lucky enough to be at a friend’s place for the weekend – from which you can see Saint Peter’s as a distant tiny dot on the horizon – taking long walks through the farm land where I am luxuriating in all the plants and animals that I don’t get to hang out with on top of our hill in Rome.