La Riserva Montebello
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Car hire for 3 days over
... valley, locals walking around at night pre dinner chatting in the streets. Places dn,t open for dinner till 730 so we have had many late nights lately. Starts to get dark at 4.30 so hate to see what it's like in winter. We explored volterra more n the morning then drove to San gimignano, we just called it jimminey cricket, another hill town with 14 towers left standing out of 72. The views from the top of a old tower area was great, nick was ...
A Picture Perfect Town
... the Orvieto train station, you have to take the funicular to get into the city, which is a pretty awesome cable car that takes you straight up the steep slope and under the city walls and drops you off in the historic part of the city. Orvieto's first funicular was built in 1888 and used until 1970 when they began constructing this modern one, which opened in 1990.
Orvieto is dominated by its cathedral, the Duomo di Orvieto, begun in ...
New Friends and a Great Meal
... for several years. He also traveled through Europe as a young man with some of his mates and they have a reunion of sorts every year. The bus ride goes fast because of the conversation and they jump off at the train station to check on their next destination, while we continue up to the top of town. We get off the bus and are hungry so we walk a short distance and get some paninos of eggplant, tomato, and mozzarella as well as a coke zero for Carols belly. We then walk ...
Not a bad view for an Etruscan tomb
... have fooled me.
At the end of the day in the hot sun, our last stop was a quick dip in the cool waters of Lake Bolsena. We stopped on the side of the road, where we saw a small entrance to the water, cooled off for a bit and layed on the grass, soaking in the beautiful Tuscan sun.
A perfect end, to a perfect day. ...
Pizza pizza pizza! and some gelato please
... effect. The place is pretty dirty and apparently pretty dangerous at night. Walked to the old town which was filth and had many gangs lurking – the army was even called in at one stage to clean up the city. Although the main plus- this is the town that developed pizza, so we ordered and it was geewwwd. Also tried some aranchini- deep fired risotto goodness!
The other main reason to visit Naples is the city’s ...