Perugia

Italia is an awesome, beautiful country, so green, so lovely & warm! The variety of trees & greenery is amazing. Today on the bus I watched the landscape the whole trip, also passed multiple, multiple fields of sunflowers, I guess for the sunflower oil. (They reminded me of Noel's sunflowers out at Amberley.) Last time I was in Europe the 'in' crop then was the brilliant yellow of rapeseed for canola oil.

It's been mid-30's most days, at a guess, absolutely my style of weather. We all know I don't complain about the summer heat!

Anyway, a little oddity about the Cammino that I'm not doing. Two Italians walked through to Premilcuore who started about three days after I did. Weirdly they were offered English instructions at Dovadola & had to ask for Italian. They couldn't figure why until they heard my tale. Someone was covering all bases, lol. Those two were really nice & I had the option of getting to La Verna a few days further on & then continuing with them when they came through the town. Still a challenge elevation wise but at least I would be walking in the right direction. I think I was right to decide not though. Next time I'll do it right! Though they did say the Camino in Spain was less arduous, just start after the Pyrenees, lol.

I'm now in Perugia, a hilly city about 30 kms from Assisi. I'll explore the city centre tomorrow, work those hill muscles I've gained, & then on Wednesday do a morning walking tour (home-made chocolate) & a wine tour in the arvo. I'll go looking for parks again, they're such useful, friendly places.

I did try to put up more photos on fb last night but when I checked this morning they hadn't posted so I cancelled them. I'll try again.

Ciao!