Headed off for Tuscany today via roads less trvelled by tourists! Lots of picturesque scenes – patchwork fields with olives, plouged areas and woodlands. Little towns perched on the hillsides like Nocera Umbria. Unfortunately the sunflowers have all dried off but fields still pretty.
We had lunch at Gubbio- another medieval town set on a hill but different with taller storied houses – you certainly get the feeling of impregnability! There is a finuva which heads up the hill but unfortunately (or fortunately) not working – little more than a birdcage for humans suspended from a chairlift cable!! For lunch I sampled Truffle sauce- a delicacy here. Pottery also very big and beautiful and expensive!
Through Umbertide then to Cortona – home for the next 2 nights – set on the side of a very steep hill with wide viwews of Tuscany below. Passed my do-up on the way at Rocca dei Pierle! (wait for the photos).
