Del Lago Spoleto

... lunch we stumbled on a look-out and found a little Italian family having lunch there as well. We scouted a grassy spot under some trees and laid out our quilt and had lunch. We drank our chilled white wine while eating our pecorino cheese, prosciutto, fresh bread and juicy peaches. I took pictures, Marty read until we both dozed off, while hearing the happy sounds of the Italian family under the bright blue sky and ...

... makes the pecorino, three different versions, we buy the medium aged. <br><br>Mike makes lunch from fresh eggplant and tomatoes, fresh from the garden and turkey breast. We sat on the veranda and chatted until it is time for them to leave for NY. <br><br>Marty and I swim and doze by the pool, naked. Around 7:00 we dressed and walked to the ...

So today my plan was to go see another hill town called Civita di Bagnoregio. The bus schedule had changed since Rick Steves guide was published and they only had a 7:50 am bus and then the next one was at 12:45 pm. Well, I didn't want to get up to catch the early one, I wanted to be lazy and enjoy my private room for as long as I could. So I hung out in Orvieto for the morning, even though I&#8217;d already seen everything there was to see. <br><br>I went to get my "included breakfast ...

Well one month from today I will be returning from Europe (I get back on Sep 30th). It's hard to believe I&#8217;ve only been here for two weeks. What with all of the heat and getting sick, it feels like I&#8217;ve been here for ages.<br><br>Today I took a train in the morning to Orvieto, a hill town 2.5 hours south of Florence by train. That&#8217;s exactly what it sounds like &#8211; the city is on top of a hill. When I arrived, I had to take a funicular up to the top of the hill ...

It starts out smoothly with a pleasant ride to the airport we are on the plane and then they turn us back and say the plane is broken and off the road. We all make a mad dash for the ticket desk. Traveling light saved us as we could make all of our connections because we didn't check our bags. We made two unplanned stops Dallas and Heathrow but do end up Rome on the same day as we planned.<br><br>We arrive in amazingly good shape ...

... extent that I experienced two thunder storms during the day, once I managed to seek shelter, once alas I did not. I ploughed on through the day, drinking my weight in water and late on passing through the town I would meet the Farleys and Dr. Wood the next day. Onward I went toward the campsite marked on the map, but as I was nearing my destination an American man driving a truck full of gravel asked me where I was heading and advised me that there was a ...

... weather held up so we, Jim, Marlin and I headed out for lunch. Don't know the where about of Marty but know he is keeping busy. Just got back to the room, at about 3pm, and the sky opened so good time to work on this. Haven&#8217;t had internet access, for a while, so am back logged several days. Tomorrow we move on to Siena for two nights and then on to Florence.

... and there wasn&#8217;t any, to get there. This is the first return visit in 10 or 15 years and you know, very little has changed since then or even a few hundred years before that. Its was free form wandering for an hour then a cap. break followed by a visit to an olive press and some oven roasted bread with garlic, olive oil and a pinch of salt. Well now, that just leads ...

... we arrive in Orvieto and watch as Marlin gets stuck with all his baggage in a turnstile. We have taken a very slow walk around town, had lunch [great again], made res. for supper tomorrow night at Sant' Agostino Complex Rest. Right now every one is passed out in prep for night photography and of course supper [don&#8217;t we need it?].

... I agreed that we would wait for them as they got off the highway, and thus save them the impossible task of finding their own way to the B+B in the middle of the night. So it came to be that exactly 24 hours after I was sitting on a rock outside Tuval's refet waiting for a taxi that would never arrive, Yoni and I were sitting in a hire car on the middle of a roundabout, in a place almost as remote as Tuval, wondering if Garry and Jeremy were ever going to arrive.