Palazzo Leti Residenza D'Epoca Spoleto

... today. That has to be my favorite saint. Very busy here even though end of season. No wireless interent. We have one more day and we start home. I think we are ready to get home. It has been beautiful here and I have learned so much, but all good things must come to an end. See you all next week I hope.

... Rome. We had passed a shop during the tour so we wandered back to check it out. Unfortunately they only had the size above and below mine, so I had to miss out. <br> We spent some more time in the shops and enjoyed a limon gelati before meeting the rest of the group to go to our hotel.<br> Our hotel was actually quite nice, the rooms were really big and it was in a lovely setting with a nice view looking up at the town ...

... 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 ...

... br><br>By the time I made it back to my lodging (the La Magnolia B&amp;B), the doors were still closed but I decided to just see if they were open. They were, so I went up a flight of stairs and saw that they had left me a note saying my key was the in the door. This was my first night not in a hostel, because of how small the town is. I actually had a whole double all to myself and it felt wonderful! I could spread all my stuff out and I had my own private bathroom! It felt like ...

... on the terrace. I join her and relish in the cool morning air while performing Jill&#8217;s Anusara routine. Lovely.<br><br>Off to Spoleto we wind through the narrow cobbled stone streets to the top of the town. Jill and Mike show us an ancient amphitheatre, the one the Roman&#8217;s gave to the town of Spoleto for defeating Hannibal by pouring hot oil his troops. It is still being used today. We visit the town&#8217;s Duomo ...

the francescan monks must have been part mountain goat.this palce is unbelievably hilly.also it poured with rain and thundered and we got drenched.we slept in an 1800 year old nunnery in single beds of course<br>we went to the church of saint claira and saw her tomb

... birthright".and took a vow of poverty. St Francis preaching. inspired St Clare and founded the Order of the Poor Ladies, with followed the Franciscan tradition. The basilicas named in their honor and house their tombs are inspiring. <br><br>The town of Assisi reduced to rubble when it was struck by an earthquake in 1997 ...

... before as otherwise there is not even on bed left! But of course there are many other regions in Italy producing great wines like Umbria, Campania, Veneto, Friuli and Sicily. It is really worth to come to Italy for getting to know more about its wines and food and to taste them while undertaking some trips in the surrounding areas and see plenty of romantic and ancient places which are spread all over the country.