Ian and Mitzi on the cute little wooden horse in front of one of the stores.
Brecken and Megan on the big wooden horse.
The cathedral in Orvieto is one of the most spectacular and beautiful I've seen in all of Italy.
They had some wonderful shops in Orvieto. 6-23-10 Wednesday
Last night it was fairly hot, so Kindra opened the window to our room. We heard a little thud shortly after turning the lights off, and we turned them back on and found a mouse had crawled in the window and fell into our room. I had to get the broom and ended up whacking it with the broom. They have lots of fields around here, and 2 cats where we are staying, so I’m sure they have plenty of mice out in the fields. Pretty exciting though to be chasing a mouse through the house.
We did a day trip to Orvietto this afternoon. Orvietto is about 1 hour north of where we are staying, probably about 1 ½ hours-2 hours north of Rome. It’s a hilltop town and you wind around the hill, then park and take an escalator or elevator up to the town to save on parking as the town itself is very packed with small medieval streets and very little room for parking. Orvietto was great. They had fantastic shops, a beautiful church/cathedral (one of the best I had ever seen), very quaint lanes, and Pozzo San Patricio (St. Patrick’s Well). This is a well built in about the 1500’s on commission of the Pope who viewed Orvietto as a place to escape to if warring factions threatened the Pope, and they wanted a source of water for on top of the hill in the town. The well has 2 sets of stairs so one set could be used going down, and the other set going up. They were wide enough that you could take a donkey or mule down to the bottom to bring water up. It’s about 250 stairs deep (probably about 10 stories). It was pretty fascinating. It always amazes me the things they built during the middle ages without the power tools and equipment we have today. We bought a beautiful hand painted Tuscan plate with matching olive oil and vinegar pitchers that Kindra saw and loved and one of the ceramics stores. For anyone considering a trip to Italy, I’d highly recommend taking a trip to Orvietto and throwing in a little side trip to Civita di Bagnoragio that I’ll talk about in a couple of days. We were planning on visiting Civita today as well, but ran out of time. It’s not far from Orvieto.
Last night it was fairly hot, so Kindra opened the window to our room. We heard a little thud shortly after turning the lights off, and we turned them back on and found a mouse had crawled in the window and fell into our room. I had to get the broom and ended up whacking it with the broom. They have lots of fields around here, and 2 cats where we are staying, so I’m sure they have plenty of mice out in the fields. Pretty exciting though to be chasing a mouse through the house.
We did a day trip to Orvietto this afternoon. Orvietto is about 1 hour north of where we are staying, probably about 1 ½ hours-2 hours north of Rome. It’s a hilltop town and you wind around the hill, then park and take an escalator or elevator up to the town to save on parking as the town itself is very packed with small medieval streets and very little room for parking. Orvietto was great. They had fantastic shops, a beautiful church/cathedral (one of the best I had ever seen), very quaint lanes, and Pozzo San Patricio (St. Patrick’s Well). This is a well built in about the 1500’s on commission of the Pope who viewed Orvietto as a place to escape to if warring factions threatened the Pope, and they wanted a source of water for on top of the hill in the town. The well has 2 sets of stairs so one set could be used going down, and the other set going up. They were wide enough that you could take a donkey or mule down to the bottom to bring water up. It’s about 250 stairs deep (probably about 10 stories). It was pretty fascinating. It always amazes me the things they built during the middle ages without the power tools and equipment we have today. We bought a beautiful hand painted Tuscan plate with matching olive oil and vinegar pitchers that Kindra saw and loved and one of the ceramics stores. For anyone considering a trip to Italy, I’d highly recommend taking a trip to Orvietto and throwing in a little side trip to Civita di Bagnoragio that I’ll talk about in a couple of days. We were planning on visiting Civita today as well, but ran out of time. It’s not far from Orvieto.
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