The Idler Retreat at Villa Pia! We’re delighted to be welcoming renowned magazine and online academy, The Idler, to their first retreat here in October — billed as ‘a week of idling, thinking and making things in Umbria’. The week-long retreat will be hosted by editor/founder Tom Hodgkinson and academy director Victoria Hull. Idler head […]
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Oct
Oct
Author Hazel Gaynor on Writing, Kids and Deadlines! At Villa Pia we’re known not only for our exceptional family friendly service, but also for our Italian writing holidays through Ways with Words, attracting dozens of aspiring and published novelists each year. Today on the blog we’re delighted to host author and freelance writer Hazel Gaynor […]
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May
May
Kay Dunbar runs the popular Art and Writing Holidays at Villa Pia every year. In the first of our new Q&A series, she tells us about her experience of being a regular guest and course instructor at the villa.