So...long weekend. The dig gave us the day off, and no ranting until the end of the program. Yes, bureaucracy rules, even over the pond. I don't want to get anybody in trouble, so suffice to say we hit some red tape. A week's worth of it. Yeah. A week. But they caved and gave us Friday off.
I went to the Vatican. It can be summed up as: Epic.
Then we stopped for lunch at a little pizzeria. I ordered a desert whose only title/description was "torta delle nonna" or "the cake of your grandmother." I didn't have a clue what it was, but ordered it anyway. And it was amazing.
Saturday I went to Assisi, hometown of St. Francis. I loved it there. Expect a long, rambling, overly thoughtful, and pointlessly insightful post sometime soon. But I loved it. Including the uphill 4 KM hike I chose to do. Because it ended in a monastery and a beautiful forest. Fantastic.
Also: trains. The only way to travel. Very civilized.
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Ack. I just posted here, but navigated away before it confirmed. Let's see if I can remember what I said :)
ReplyDeleteI love Assisi! You know the painting on the wall of our gelato place Francesco's? That's Assisi, from the road leading west. We stayed near there, in this amazingly cute little B&B. We just wandered around and chummed with this super sweet random Nederlander couple we met there. I love the town, and that's gotta be my favorite cathedral, even given how epic the Duomo in Milan is. The town is so cool and quaint and awesome too. You can wander the whole thing in one day and never be bored :)
What is this monastery in a forest you visited? Somewhere in the hills behind the city?
Aaron, I didn't know that was what the painting was of... although I haven't been there...
ReplyDeleteWhat do you mean by "red tape"? You guys dug where you weren't supposed to...?
Assisi reminds me of that little town in France, where the bus was maneuvered fabulously and everything was cobblestoned... :)