This past Friday, Mar, Sarah and I traveled two hours out to Orvieto, a small town south of Florence. I would never have thought to go there if it wasn't for Miss Button, who studied there last semester with the UofA. All I have to say, is thank goodness she told me to go there! It probably is my favorite place I've traveled to this semester! Thankfully, unlike the rest of the week, the weather was so gorgeous! 70 degrees, sunny, perfetto! Oriveto is the typical, adorable, Italian town on a hill, surrounded by rolling vineyards and villas!
We took some pictures then decided just to spend the rest of the morning wandering around and exploring all the little wine/oil/clothes shops. Despite the fact that the town is small, they have a surprising number of commercial stores, like the Intimisimi. In Italy, there are underwear stores about as often as there are Starbucks in the States. We decided it was about time that we actually entered one... it was actually pretty funny because Italians have very different tastes than Americans do. We wandered out to the edge of the town to see the valley and I could not take enough pictures! It was too beautiful!
We then found a fantastic place for lunch and ordered bruschette, zuppa, and of course.... VINO! The three of us get along so well and had such a blast with a little bit of wine added! After il pranzo, we decided it was time to head over to the Duomo! Orvieto's Duomo is incredibly famous for its facade and definitely lived up to the hype!To make it even better, I saw a group of UofA students playing soccer next to the Duomo... I recognized the basketball shorts and nearly squealed! Anyway, after I got over the excitement of seeing people somehow connected to me in a foreign country, we went into the duomo and spent almost an hour in front of the famous frescoes, absorbing all we could from them as Mar read from her guide book about them. We then got some gelato and made our way back to the train ride... a nice leisurely ride.. until two american girls decided to sit next to us and talk really loudly! Who knew, I can spot Americans everywhere I go and they almost annoy me now.. just because so many of the American girls here don't make any effort to blend in and carry on having loud, personal conversations in public places... anyway...
It was a wonderfully relaxing day for once! Before I head off to Rome for Easter!
We took some pictures then decided just to spend the rest of the morning wandering around and exploring all the little wine/oil/clothes shops. Despite the fact that the town is small, they have a surprising number of commercial stores, like the Intimisimi. In Italy, there are underwear stores about as often as there are Starbucks in the States. We decided it was about time that we actually entered one... it was actually pretty funny because Italians have very different tastes than Americans do. We wandered out to the edge of the town to see the valley and I could not take enough pictures! It was too beautiful!
We then found a fantastic place for lunch and ordered bruschette, zuppa, and of course.... VINO! The three of us get along so well and had such a blast with a little bit of wine added! After il pranzo, we decided it was time to head over to the Duomo! Orvieto's Duomo is incredibly famous for its facade and definitely lived up to the hype!To make it even better, I saw a group of UofA students playing soccer next to the Duomo... I recognized the basketball shorts and nearly squealed! Anyway, after I got over the excitement of seeing people somehow connected to me in a foreign country, we went into the duomo and spent almost an hour in front of the famous frescoes, absorbing all we could from them as Mar read from her guide book about them. We then got some gelato and made our way back to the train ride... a nice leisurely ride.. until two american girls decided to sit next to us and talk really loudly! Who knew, I can spot Americans everywhere I go and they almost annoy me now.. just because so many of the American girls here don't make any effort to blend in and carry on having loud, personal conversations in public places... anyway...
It was a wonderfully relaxing day for once! Before I head off to Rome for Easter!
2 comments:
random, but VS actually sells intimisimi stuff in the states...
in case you were wondering :-)
yay, I'm so glad you liked Orvieto! That's funny that you saw the UA students. I loved that Intimissimi, I know exactly where you're talking about! Boys underwear there is SO hilarious, huh!? Where did you eat lunch? Anyway, email me more details if you get a chance! baci!
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