We have been so busy the last few days that I haven’t had a moment to sit and upload any photos. I will, hopefully, have a little time today to catch up and post some photos of what we have been up to.

We did attend the Festival in Cortona, had a nice time catching up with our friend Vanessa, and spent a wonderful afternoon with our friend Francesco and his lovely lady friend Maria Vittoria touring Monte San Savino. Then we headed by train to stay in Orvieto for five days. Yesterday we went in to Rome to the Vatican for the Popes Wednesday blessing. After we were there for a couple of hours we decided to walk to Trastevere. We walked through there then headed to Campo di Fiore then on to Piazza Navona. In all we figure we walked at least 8.5 miles! Therefore I am laid up with a swollen knee and have time to write.

John is headed to do the underground caves walking tour, and since you won’t catch me in caves this is a perfect time for me to rest and catch up!

I wIll do separate blog posts for each area so none of them are too long and it won’t overtax the internet too much!

The first photo is from our tour around Monte San Savino, the second is of the valley that surrounds Orvieto and the third is a small portion of the Duomo here in Orvieto.