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Car hire for 3 days over
... impressed by a bloke playing the flute, his music floated through this quiet olive tree park. Nick grumbled away about it for the next hour. Yes, he didn,t buy one of his cd,s. set off west to bibbona to see the seaside areas. Hmmmmm everything closed, beach is black sand, area is dull n drab, buildings everywhere but all shut. So ended up a fun hour trying to find somewhere to stay, ended up near hill town of bolgheri. Hotel with only us in ...
Leaving Assisi
This morning we leave Assisi for Florence, with a certain sense of sadness. It has been a very precious time, of walking, eating, talking, reflecting and being. We have loved our hotel with its superb views of the city. It is ideally located, hence it's name, Ideale Hotel. (Piazza Giacomo Matteotti, 1, Assisi, Province of Perugia 075 813570, http://www.hotelideale.it/). We have been able to walk ...
Last day in Assisi
... We walked around it and looked at the magnificent views, but decided not to pay the 5 Euro each to go inside as it warned anyone suffering from vertigo or claustrophobia to give it a miss. Then off to a wonderful shoe shop we found to buy more Italian shoes and home to the balcony to sip wine and watch the sunset. Capped off a wonderful day with dinner with Paul and Anita Duffett, who are here at the Anglican church in Assisi doing a locum for three months. ...
Visit to San Damiano
... in front of which he was praying. The actual crucifix is now in the grand Santa Chiara basilica, but there is a very new looking replica at San Damiano. Like St Stephano's we felt this place had a presence and power that the larger shrines to St Francis lack. While the original small church is overshadowed by all the other buildings that have been built around and over it to celebrate its significance the original building is still intact. We sat for quite ...
Another amazing day in Assisi
... to walk up Mount Subasio to Francis' Hermitage. The Hermitage (Eremo Delle Carceri) is a place Francis and his companions withdrew to to pray. Carceri means literally prison, but a better translation is probably [prayer] cell. There are a number of small cells carved out of the rock where St Francis and his brothers prayed. The present small convent was restructured by St Bernardino of Sienna in the 15th century, and added to further in the 16th and 17th centuries. One suspects ...