VILLA ROMANA DEL CASALE
Our unanimously-appointed tour shepherd announced that within an hour, we will be ushered off to a tour. And yet, nobody moved an inch.
Everyone was engrossed – active ones doing laps on the infinity pool, some in the various stages of leisurely breakfasts, while others were on the wide terrace with their private thoughts, staring out at the Strait of Messina and beyond.
Us nine traveling companions –a theater-movie director, weaves and fabric specialist, arts and culture advocate, events planner-organizer, educator par excellence of mind and spirit, airline marketing guru, hotelier-philanthropist, travel and tourism expert, and a marriage officiant – were solidly still as the rocks and boulders on the lush flowering garden.
But who was to blame? We were ecstatically cocooned in a secluded luxury Sicilian villa by the
