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Travel Blogs from Montepulciano
Rain, Sleet, Snow, Fog
... in my adventures during this trip. In addition to a day trip to Assisi I also made it to Orvieto. Paul really likes the church of St Francis so it was nice to be able to make that trip with him. I’ve always felt a powerful, peaceful presence in that church and particularly so this time around. Meditating at the tomb of St Francis is a grounding experience. I can only imagine that the Buddist principle of being in the now is pretty close to what ...
An afternoon of olives
On Wednesday... I slept in 'till 8:30am, then had a scrumptious breakfast of pastries and bene (good) Italian caffe. (I just had the same breakfast this morning, Thursday, but asked for fruit tomorrow. Otherwise, my clothes won't fit!) After breakfast I headed off to my friends' house, but couldn't remember which direction to go! Virginia, the innkeeper, kindly I offered to take me on her way home -- we still got ...
Io Arrivo!
I made it! It's a looong ways to go! Via Frankfurt Airport which is a HUGE airport, particularly when one lands at gate Z and leaves from gate B. To get to gate B walked many long corridors, two moving side walks, and three elevator rides. Then... a 10 minute bus ride around the Tarmac to get to the small plane for Florence. And, finally a train ride to ...
The Land of Chocolate
... should be since it comes from Perugia).
The festival itself was small so my friends and I explored the corridors of the city for a couple hours.
Sadly, there's not much else to say except I saw a man playing songs from "Amelie" on his accordion and my heart melted. ...
A day in Montepulciano
... and Jayhawks. We had to buy again, just the best Nobile she had of course. After leaving we tasted more and shopped more (Lauri did), and after a while we found ourselves looking for another restorante (I did), for a 375ml of Nobile and a coffee for Lauri. Clouds had been hovering all day but they say here in Tuscany that they never know what they want to do, the clouds. This time they decided to rain so as we quickly picked ...