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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
... it does get old trying to navigate the crowds in the center and having to avoid the main grocery stores when the city is usually so peaceful, but I can see how important it probably is for bringing tourists and their money to Perugia every year.
So, to get away from the madness for a day and play the tourist myself, I traveled to Orvieto yesterday, another Umbrian hill town about an hour and a half by train from Perugia. Once you ...
New Friends and a Great Meal
... gate. The arch here was on the main Etruscan road leading to the Tiber valley and Rome and was cut around 500BC. As we walk into town, there is the front of an old palace. Just the facade stands as the rest disappeared with the cliff due to erosion. We also see the couple from the bus sitting at a small cafe drinking Cappucino. We start to talk and they invite us to join them. Alan and Kay are from New Zealand and are on holiday for a month. We immediately hit it off and talk ...
We Stay in Orvieto
We get up to catch the early bus to Bagnoregio, but Carol is still not feeling good so we decide to go tomorrow and try to tour a few sites in town today. Back to bed we go and wake back up around 1000. Her stomach issues have settled down for now, so we head out to see how she does. We walk over near the Duomo and sign up for an 1115 underground Orvieto Tour. While we wait, we visit the city museum which is right across the piazza. It contains art from ...
Pizza pizza pizza! and some gelato please
... home cooked meals. We went and saw the most active volcano in Europe- Stromboli, one of the Islands. It was unreal. We climbed up for sunset (about 3 hr. climb). Then waited for the eruption. There are three craters- the oldest at the top, the second oldest below that and the youngest (active part) the lowest. We stood on the rim of the second oldest and look down into the youngest. When it blew, it was unreal. Hearing the sound of a ...