After four nights in Rome I decided that I should perhaps move on before my rail pass is entirely spent. Barcelona is my destination, although my plan involved crossing the south of France by rail in order to get there. Unfortunately, however, the rail routes between northern Italy and Barcelona are entirely booked for [...]
On Thursday, Jen and I took the train to Rome. I’ve been waiting my entire life to get here.
It’s time for me to give up this life of crime and settle down. I’m going to find some legal way to finance an apartment above some boutique on the Via della Corso, and spend my days [...]
Today Jen and I drove first to Montefalco, the town that produces Umbria’s finest wine, and then to Bavagna, a little medieval town with a monastery wherein Jen spent a few days earlier in the week. Lunch was at a wine bar in Montefalco’s central piazza: primi, a rustic polenta with Gorgonzola and sausage, and [...]
Travelling some three thousand kilometres south has brought, rather expectedly, a change in weather. It’s mostly sunny, with brief, warm storms.
Also, I have a replacement camera! Yay!
Good food, friendly locals speaking a language that I almost understand, sunshine, vistas over patchwork fields, cobbled streets filled with nuns. This is Assisi, Umbria. It’s hot. I love it. I’ve spent the afternoon wandering up and down the hill gathering picnic ingredients for tonight’s dinner with Jen and Jo. I have baby tomatoes, fresh [...]