by Monica | Apr 19, 2016 | Blog
Valued Subscriber, Welcome to Monica’s Waterfront Bakery & Cafe’! We are Monica and Mark Downen, owners of Monica’s, and on behalf of our entire team we want to say thank you! Thank you for your support and interest in what we have going on....
by Monica | Jan 29, 2013 | Blog
by Monica | Oct 23, 2012 | Blog
Tuesday was bittersweet as we knew it was our final day together and we enjoyed each other’s company so much! Fabio whisked us away to il Falconiere, which is a luxury resort just outside of Cortona, owned by Riccardo and Silvia Baracchi. Silvia taught...
by Monica | Oct 23, 2012 | Blog
St Francis was very special. We got to go to Assisi and see the original little chapel (known as Porziuncola) that he built, which is housed in the Basilica dedicated to St Mary of the angels. This is the 7th largest church in all of Christianity, and the 4th largest...
by Monica | Oct 21, 2012 | Blog
On this Italy adventure, as in life (albeit extremely magnified) each day holds special gifts. This morning we were supposed to have gone on a truffle hunt in the Tuscan countryside, and then have a lunch featuring that fine fungus. The weather here has been very dry...
by Monica | Oct 21, 2012 | Blog
I hope you will forgive me if my brain is mush; I just had the treat of a massage and It was rather a good one. Today was a very special day and relaxing in many ways, which I will get to in a minute. But first, Orvieto! Yesterday was my first visit to that lovely...
