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Orvieto & Out
"No man needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one."
- Elbert Hubbard
Today is was 38C. That's 100F. And according to wunderground.com, it felt like 41C, or 106F. So you can imagine my appearance...and mood.
I arrived Orvieto via Verona around 7pm. This is my last stop and I really had done little to …
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
... how much we enjoyed the food. I tell him my mom was a great cook and this is as good or maybe even better than her cooking. When I say my heritage is Italian and where my grandparents came from, he says he is from Palermo, Sicily. So I ask him if he moved here for work or love. It was love, his wife is from here and told him he had to move to Orvieto, so here he is. Lucky for us! He gives us a free small bottle of the extra virgin olive oil they use. It was just an all around, ...
We Stay in Orvieto
... and an old medieval kiln with tools. Who knows what else lies beneath some of the homes and streets above. Carol is not feeling great but wants to continue to see the Etruscan Necropolis. It is not easy to find and we end up walking along the path on the outside of the city walls. We find it lying beneath us but the entrance is quite a ways downhill on a road. Carol is not up to it so we walk a little further on the path and cut back up into town. ...
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- Free High-Speed Internet
- Room service
- Wheelchair accessibility
- Free parking
- Pets allowed
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