Tuesday, 23 May 2017

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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