Rain, and lots of it, but we had a good night’s sleep and
had a choice of taking a rather tricky route into the wilderness of the
mountain range or head back down the road to ‘Bedfordshire’ to pick up on our
‘must see’ places. We plumped for the latter, but being refreshed, the sleepy
31mph road back wasn’t so bad. We eventually arrived at Montefalco, yet another
lovely hill top town with a stunning panoramic view of the upper Umbrian valley. The town was
dressed in pink, pink ribbons, pink flowers, pink bicycles, you name it and it
was pink! Then the penny dropped, the Giro d’Italia (Italy’s version of the
Tour de France) came through the village last week and pink is the significant
shirt of the leader of the race, as yellow is in the Tour de France. So we
missed Italy ’s
premier cycle race by 5 days.
The largest lazy Susan we have ever seen! |
The sosta is one of the best we’ve stayed in, yes it was the
princely sum of 5€, but for that you get all services, including electricity
powerful enough to run a small town, never mind Rachel’s hair dryer, and
a lovely view en suite. The laundrette was 200 metres away and with a baking
sun and decent breeze it was perfect ‘drying weather’.
Monday morning we headed north, after kicking 2 sostas into
touch, the first for being unkempt but free, and the second for being unkempt
at 8€, we finally pushed the boat out and paid 12€ for a superb agriturismo
sosta with a beautiful view of Assisi, wifi included, hence this post.
Whether you’re religious or not, Assisi
is a stunning town in its own right. Yes there are the tacky souvenir shops,
which are to be expected, but the place still retains an air of class and is
immaculate. The pink stone sets it apart from other places we’ve seen and
despite it being a large historical town everywhere was so well presented. Assisi
is one of the most beautiful towns we’ve visited.
The mile of pavement leading up to the town |
Italian ice cream, well you just have to! |
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