Waldensian Review No 126 Summer 2015 | Page 7

to Torre when we went with our then 10-month-old son. Now in 2015 we were going back to Italy for a visit with our 8-year-old son and 7-year-old daughter; would it have changed much? We had both stayed in the Foresteria Valdese before, but always in Casa Beckwith; this time we were to be in the ‘grown-up’ part. The welcome was, as always, warm and friendly. We had explained to the children that we would eat our evening meals there and that it was not like a hotel, you had to eat what you were given. We ate well