Landing on a Star in Umbria

This is a true love story of a Dutch-Indonesian immigrant woman, married to an American man of Italian descent, and how they followed their unimaginable dream of buying a vacation home in Italy. Although many books have been written about similar experiences, this uniquely different story tells the heartwarming tale of the perils and the wonderful people they encountered during their search to find the perfect home in Morcella; a meticulously well-maintained medieval Borgo built in 975AD, in Italy’s beautiful green belt region of Umbria.

Born in 1951, on the Indonesian Island of Java, in the village of Surabaya, Joyce Di Lorenzo repatriated with her family to The Netherlands in 1952. At the age of ten years old, she and her family immigrated to America in search of a better life. She grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she met her husband. Being of Italian descent, one day, her husband suggested buying a vacation home in Italy. Now, the couple divide their time between living in Idaho and Morcella, a lovely medieval village in Umbria.