Assisi to Naples - plus a long drive - Thursday October 17, 2014

We travelled about half an hour out of Perugia to Assisi.  This is a very medieval looking town, on top of a mountain.  The skies cleared up by noon and it was a beautiful blue sky and the town itself was beautiful.  We had a guide, Eduardo, meet us and take us around.  He was excellent in pointing out works of art and gave explanations of the different interpretations of the art works.  Plus we visited the lower tombs of St Clare and St Francis of Assisi at their respective churches in the town. 

After the tour we had only an hour to have a picnic lunch and then tour the streets and visit some of the tourist stores.  I looked everywhere for a St Assisi scarf and asked around and no one had one.  There is one for Rome but none for Assisi.

From Assisi we started a six hour journey to Naples where we are now.  We just had one of our special dinners as a group and we had a very tasty unknown fish.  The desert was one of my favourites, Baba au Rum.  of course today I am trying to keep up the record and working very hard on it too, to have a Gelato, but a crema one, everyday.  Such a hard job.  We had a lovely sunset coming into Naples along with a great view on Monte Casino (from WWII) and Mount Vesuvius.  Both looming large in the horizon. 

It was a warm day and it is supposed to get warmer still in as we move south.  Tomorrow it is the Amalfi coast.


Our days in Italy are slowly coming to a close soon but we are still enjoying everyday immensely.

The photo below looks fake but that's how pretty it was.

Barb & Deb