Our bus from Assisi was almost 2 hours faster than the train option. It dropped us near the elevator up to the old town. Wow! What a place! It is everything you could imagine a Tuscan hilltop town could be.
We walked down to Il Campo, the main square that still has 11th century buildings and found a tiny hotel only minutes away. The only drawback…… lots of stairs….. no lift!
It is far enough from the square to be quiet but close enough to be there in a few minutes.
The square is magnificent. People just sit and take it in - some in the bars, some in the restaurants….. others in the square itself. We are still to sit and fully explore the tower etc.
We headed up to the 13th century Duomo, visited the magnificent Baptistry, the Crypt, the cathedral itself - truly magnificent with lots of frescoes, paintings etc and the
Museo Dell’Opera.
After a late afternoon rest, we had drinks…. yes, our room has a frig…..and then out to dinner at a trattoria recommended by the hotel owner - just 5 minutes behind the tower of the main square but 1000 miles from the tourists. We were among the very few non Siennese. Great local food and wine.
At the end of the meal, the waitress gave us a present of the dregs of a bottle of grappa and a bottle of white muscatelle. We enjoyed the cinnamon infused flavour of the muscatelle but not so of the grappa. Gail had a big slug….. “Isn’t it water?” Then we decided what to do with what remained in our glasses. We could take it home as an alcohol rub for our tired legs; we could use it as fuel for a barbecue dinner tomorrow…. or we could water the nearby topiary hedge. The hedge died instantly!
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That's how you know you're at a great eating place - all full of locals!
Ha ha ha. The guy in the Italian restaurant we used to go to in Cremorne used to give us home made grappa and I never knew what to do with it!
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