The Relais Histò San Pietro sul Mar Piccolo is the hotel I'm staying at. Looking out over the picturesque bay of the Mar Piccolo or little sea, the hotel is surrounded by over 70 acres of olive trees. Goat herders are often in the fields or crossing the roads on the way to the Histo. The Relais Histò San Pietro sul Mar Piccolo Hotel is set in a medieval farm estate, a masseria, which has been completely renovated. The masseria was first recorded in 1392 as belo...

Trulli's are unique stone structures found in southern italy. Most are in or near olive orchards. There are larger more elaborate trulli's in the mountains. The ones like this one in the picture, so the story goes were built in this manner so when the tax collector came, the home could be quickly and easily deconstructed so the taxes were not so high.

On the sunday, the day after the Boeing team helps clean up a park in the aftermath of the Tornado, we had a much deserved christmas dinner/recognition dinner for all our accomplishments this year. It was a beautiful venue the Relais La Fontanina, outside of Franka Villa. It was a great time, and the food was great in my opinion. Loved the pork loin. Yum. In the photo, Mark, Jason, Tina and Steve

Instead of spending our normal 8 hours at work this Saturday, the Boeing employees organized a community outreach activity in a local community children's park that was affected by the 11/28/2012 tornado that hit the town next to us, Taranto, Italy. About 50 of us gathered Saturday morning to remove debris and clean up a community's park and playground. The trees had been removed but there was debris that we piled and raked up, a big truck with a grappling a...

Opera Pizza, the best food so far. Pizza, steak, apps, wine. all the best so Far. Mark, Janson and I went out after a long hard day, Opera has a great mondern atmostphere, in a residental setting. Best dinning experience bar none.