Here is the daily itinerary of this week for 10 women living at Il Podere in Pereto:

Wake up, walk, or not, have yoga with yoga instructor (a quiet striking man with powerful hands and an impressionable ability to breathe), or not, espresso with hot milk and breakfast, lie in the sun or travel to hilltop town, valley town, cook, laugh, drink, dinner or laugh, drink, and dinner at villa or in the back of a pasticceria, sing, laugh, drink, dance, sleep.

And again.