Another beautiful day in Umbria. Lieu and I walked after breakfast thorough the countryside of olive orchards. Did a little more exploring of the town as well. Lunch was at a little restaurant around the corner from the hotel. I had beef tartar with an egg yolk on a bed of arugula with shaved truffles. A little out of my comfort zone, but damn it was good! Georgia and I split an order of creamed pumpkin soup and she had gnocchi with a local red wine and Gorgonzola sauce. Really did not need the dinner tonight, but suffered through it anyway.
This afternoon, we went to the local museum with religious pieces from the 1300s in the same building as the Olive Oil Museum. Fascinating as well. We walked around town a little more. The town has a walking tour with 38 stops. There are little painted footprints on the cobblestones and a guidebook in some of the most fractured English ever, obviously not proofread by an English speaker. It starts out “Our land is a not unknown part of Umbria, which has lived intensely every period of the Italian History, as testified by the many vestiges scattered almost everywhere across the territory.”
Weirdest thing of the day was when Lieu and I were walking we ran into an old Italian man who was trying to chat us up, even though we told he we didn’t speak Italian. Didn’t stop him for a minute. He kept up quite the one sided conversation.
Tomorrow is Assisi
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| Olive Groves |
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| Steak Tartar with Shaved Truffles |
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| Trevi |
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| From the Museum in Trevi |
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| From the Trevi Museum |
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