We were fortunate to be invited the other day to go to lunch in Panicale by some very special people. They spend a great deal of time in Italy, even more than we do, and they use Cortona as a base as we do. They have a wonderful blog with a lot of the history of the places they visit and well worth reading, blogginginitaly.com.
Panicale is a lovely little hilltop town in the province of Perugia in Umbria, with a fantastic view of Lake Trasimeno. We had been to the lower part of the town before, but never to the upper area so it was a great new experience for us. Not only did we get to drive through the fields where the beautiful red poppies are starting to show but they have a Cinque Cento which is my favorite car and we got to ride in that!
We were too busy having fun chatting and getting to know each other better for me to be bothered with too many photos, but the ones I did take will give you a small idea of how sweet this town is.
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Yvonne and John, so happy you could join us! It was a delightful day for us as well- the ride, the conversation, the views, and lunch. Looking forward to another day trip together in the future! Hopefully time for a caffé/vino before you leave!
It was a really nice day, thank you for sharing it with us! Hopefully we will see you guys again before we leave.
Glad you got a chance to hang out with Len and Judy but I am surprised it didn’t result in photos of food and wine 🙂
Our little Cortona cottage became available for a week the end of May and if we weren’t in the middle of moving house you would have seen us over there as well.
I love the Wisterias!
Yes Jean, no food photos from this lunch from me, too busy chatting
So pretty!
It is Sam! Next time you are here we will have to spend time there