Snapped just yesterday in the glorious sunshine, the infinity pool at Bellaugello Gay Guest House

To be included in my Bellaugello Backs series just book in and enjoy the salt-treated infinity pool

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Ieri. Una serata bellissima…… Cena sotto le stelle presso Bellaugello gay guest house

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Cleaning a terrace outside one of the suites today I chanced to look up…. And discovered the culprit. Our new born owl is learning to fly the nest

Camouflaged in the wisteria out new addition….
What joy!

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The sun in Umbria got hot…. The pool at Bellaugello Gay Guest House hotter!

Thanks guys! June in Umbria, the infinity pool overlooking the glorious countryside, privacy, peace, pleasure, all found at Bellaugello

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A stunning morning with the guys breakfasting outside on the terrace. Sunshine after the rain of the past few weeks means the gardens at Bellaugello Gay Guest House are verdant and lush

Tonight the fireflies hover under a starry sky, tomorrow the weather is to get hotter, maybe even some Bellaugello Backs will be photographed.

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At last! Breakfast outside on a perfect sunny still morning at Bellaugello Gay Guest House overlooking stunning Umbrian scenery in the heart of Italy

The only casualty a wee swift who came to the pool to drink and swam too low and is now drying out waiting to be launched back into the clear cloudless azure skies

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As so often happens, as joy comes to some people so sadness comes to others.  I am still elated after the recent wedding of my good local friends, it was such a magically happy occasion, and so I was saddened to read this morning an email from a guy informing me that he and his partner have split up and although they booked way back last October he does not feel sufficiently strong to come on holiday alone.

The upshot is that the Diva Suite at Bellaugello Gay Guest House is now available for seven nights in August, from check-in Monday 12th to check-out Monday 19th August.  This is the only seven night availability that we have in any suite in August.

The Diva Suite is our most modern in style, a private covered terrace leads to the double aspect living room with kitchen corner, the separate bedroom with large double bed has commanding views south over the Chiascio valley, and the large bathroom delights in a panoramic shower.  To book your summer sunshine holiday in a chic modern suite email me at: book@bellaugello.com

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A day for relaxing poolside at Bellaugello gay guest house overlooking the dreamy Umbrian countryside

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The sun shone, and as the newly wed couple stepped out of the council chamber in our local historic town of Gubbio and into the Piazza Grande the crowds applauded.  It was a simple but beautiful ceremony, the bride looking delicate as a porcelain doll, the groom suave and elegant, and their young daughter one of the angelically pretty bridesmaids, as against the backdrop of the medieval city and an azure sky cameras flashed and photographs were taken.

A lavish reception was held in a local villa resplendent in crumbling grandeur.  Battered old masters reminiscent of Caravaggios lined the walls, antique tomes filled the shelves, and gargoyles looked down on the proceedings in gardens filled with overgrown cascading roses, heady scents, and magnificent trees, prosecco flowed liberally.  The band played tarantellas all night and we danced until the “wee sma’ ours”

A lovely time to spend with friends made here in Umbria who are seen in the photo below taken at the reception, no thanks to Apple iPhone for the diamond eyes!

Last week I quietly celebrated six years of my moving here to Umbria, I have reflected on how my life has changed, how fortunate I am to have chosen such a beautiful place to live, to have met such wonderful, kind and helpful people, so many of whom have become real friends, on how lucky I am to be running Bellaugello Gay Guest House, to host and meet such interesting guys and help them enjoy the Umbrian experience.

Of all the places in the world I have been, here is the best, it is home, and now as my good friends Sarah and Salvatore enter married life and continue to run their gorgeous b&b their roots are more firmly fixed to the Umbrian soil, we are indeed fortunate.

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One month ago I spent an enjoyable evening singing in the month of May.  A tradition in the country parts of the region of Umbria, where people sing the passing of winter and the arrival of summer.  The song has many verses, all in Eugubine (from our local town of Gubbio) dialect.

Last night I was once again singing, but this time not to say goodbye to the month of May but to celebrate a wedding.  The groom, a very good friend – and a romantic had organised a “serenata”.  This takes place the evening before the wedding, where the groom woos his bride to be and sings of his love.  Fortunately for us here in Umbria there is a group of local musicians who are only too happy to carry on this tradition which in days gone by of no money and hardship, was the only excuse for a family to celebrate and party the up-coming nuptials.

At dusk the musicians assemble outside the house and begin to sing, the groom launches a red rose up to his bride,

and then the Romeo and Juliet moment….  and because it was raining we all retreated rapidly to the kitchen!

Well, throughout the month of May it has rained almost non-stop, the weather has been most un-summery.  Today is the wedding and there is another local saying “Sposa bagnata matrimonio fortunato” and the weather forecast is for us to move this week directly from winter into summer.

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