The coolness of the morning invited me to climb to the top of the town. Spello is beautiful. The roads, houses, piazza benches, flower arrangements, even the people; are all perfect. It is a really steep town, and the walking up involved continuous climbing. It wasn’t as bad as the Raphael road two towns ago, but it was slow going as the roads up never seemed to end. The bike ride down was glorious! People are envious of my bike rides down. A number of people have made comments to me in all manner of languages, with all sorts of body language, suggesting how lucky it is to have a ride down.
My mission for the afternoon was to buy bungee cables since I plan to ride the bike, tomorrow, in Rome, from the Central Terminal to the B&B, and I want to strap my suitcase on the bike. I hopped in the car and drove to numerous stores, along various roads, for great lengths of time, with no luck and then when I looked up and I was staring at Assisi! I’ve seen Assisi from all sides now…. I figured that since I was so close to Assisi, I might as well make a left turn and head to Perugia!
I parked on the road above the Perugia Sanna train station, which seems to be located at the end of the tracks. The trains don’t pass the station, they stop right at it! I took one escalator from track level up then climbed more roads and steps to get to the viewing deck level at the top of the town. It was an incredible view and the sky was magnificent. I rested at the top with a gin-tonic in hand. The header photo is the gin-tonic view. (It's funny that when I am in a town, I want to look out of it.)
On the way home from Perugia, I took a lumpy, red gravel, single-lane, in need of a lot of work, in-the-middle-of-nowhere, top-of-the-mountain-who-on-earth-would-drive-this-road, road, which took me through some incredible farmland and beautiful olive groves. But the weirdest thing was that at the very top of the mountain, the road was lined with modern works of art. Yeah, It took me by surprise too!. Parco della Scultura di Castelbuono, Bevagna. I took a few photos of them, but didn't really want to stop the car for long on this road as it wasn't the safest feeling road, in the sense that it didn't feel stable. At one point I saw a road sign from the other direction displaying that there was a town in the direction from which I just came. The existence of that sign, on the other side of the road for oncoming traffic let me know that the road actually did go somewhere and not just dead end on the top. So, I kept going.
PS - No Bungee cables to be found. Instead, I bought some kind of strapping for curtain repair and a pair of scissors. (I might take a taxi!)
My mission for the afternoon was to buy bungee cables since I plan to ride the bike, tomorrow, in Rome, from the Central Terminal to the B&B, and I want to strap my suitcase on the bike. I hopped in the car and drove to numerous stores, along various roads, for great lengths of time, with no luck and then when I looked up and I was staring at Assisi! I’ve seen Assisi from all sides now…. I figured that since I was so close to Assisi, I might as well make a left turn and head to Perugia!
I parked on the road above the Perugia Sanna train station, which seems to be located at the end of the tracks. The trains don’t pass the station, they stop right at it! I took one escalator from track level up then climbed more roads and steps to get to the viewing deck level at the top of the town. It was an incredible view and the sky was magnificent. I rested at the top with a gin-tonic in hand. The header photo is the gin-tonic view. (It's funny that when I am in a town, I want to look out of it.)
On the way home from Perugia, I took a lumpy, red gravel, single-lane, in need of a lot of work, in-the-middle-of-nowhere, top-of-the-mountain-who-on-earth-would-drive-this-road, road, which took me through some incredible farmland and beautiful olive groves. But the weirdest thing was that at the very top of the mountain, the road was lined with modern works of art. Yeah, It took me by surprise too!. Parco della Scultura di Castelbuono, Bevagna. I took a few photos of them, but didn't really want to stop the car for long on this road as it wasn't the safest feeling road, in the sense that it didn't feel stable. At one point I saw a road sign from the other direction displaying that there was a town in the direction from which I just came. The existence of that sign, on the other side of the road for oncoming traffic let me know that the road actually did go somewhere and not just dead end on the top. So, I kept going.
PS - No Bungee cables to be found. Instead, I bought some kind of strapping for curtain repair and a pair of scissors. (I might take a taxi!)
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