Ciao! I'm in love!

Dear children, dear comrades, you won't believe this:
I am falling in love. Si, with Italy. At last.
There's nothing like a late in life romance, and this is going to be interesting.
We had a truly unnerving trip down from London -- no, not due to any flight difficulties, but to the boorish Brit ground crew in Gatwick, who made our boarding with Greg very complicated and unpleasant. But we finally squeezed onto the tiny EasyJet airbus (now known to us forever as SleazyJet), and flew speedily and handily, if sardinelike, to Ciampino airport. Leenie had reserved the largest car possible to transport Greg and his crutches, and the rest of us, and our luggage: they gave us an Alfa hybrid wagon, dontcha know. We headed north on the A1 autostrada, and one hour-plus later, about 11 PM, we were wending our way up the switchback road to Giove.
Oh, my friends, what an experience this is going to be for me -- for us..... Leenie had been feeling awful, with a bad cold and various other minor but aggravating symptoms, and of course very stressed; but as we walked down the hill to her house with our luggage, she hugged me and said, 'Oh, I feel so much better, already!' .... and so did we all. There is something magical about this Giove, and I am going to try to absorb it fully -- and if possible, transcribe it in some sort of words for you.
I slept intermittently, last night, in this gorgeous guest apartment down the hill. The whole house is nestled into the side of the top of the mountain, and the views across the Tiber valley are incredible.
We woke at sunrise, threw on warm clothes, and walked up the flagstone steps to the road, and over a few paces, to the village cafe -- where we wolfed down two cappuccini each -- oh, yum!
I don't find words to describe what I'm experiencing, just yet; I'm overwhelmed with the beauty of this place. Give me time, and I'll try to convey what I'm seeing and feeling -- it's still early in the morning of my first day in Paradise.
Suffice to say that I've already said to John, 'why don't we come here and live for a year?'