On the Road Again

Yesterday, we decided to take another day trip. This time over to Assisi. Assisi came highly recommended to us by one the best up -and-coming news anchors, Susan Elizabeth Littlefield. Well, she recommended the pizza at least, which drew me in. As soon as we arrived, we went searching for pizza, but took a wrong turn and ended up at the Basilica San Francesca, which was pretty amazing. We took the tour and saw the tomb of Saint Francis.... pretty remarkable.

Afterwards, we made our way to one of the local pizza joints for a wonderful pizza pie.... thank you Suze for the recommendation.

After eating one of the best pizzas we have ever eaten, we decided to walk around and work the pizza off. Suze had told us that visiting Assisi was like stepping back in time and she was exactly right. The town was so quaint and cozy. Every street had a an amazing view and we just kept taking turn after turn trying to get lost in this amazing little town.

Eventually, we ended up taking a turn that brought us out at an old fort at the very top of the city. I must admit that it was pretty cool. The fort was enormous and the architecture was marvelous. I must had stared for 10 minutes trying to figure out how it was constructed so long ago. I was in awe of the fort.

Oh, I almost forgot, on the way to the fort, we passed a couple of tower cranes. I was very intrigued by the tower cranes so we walked a little closer to get a better view. After we got closer I realized that there is no station for the crane operator like I am used to on tower cranes in the states. I am still trying to figure out how they operate them over here. As a side note, I have seen quite a few tower cranes since we have been here. However, I have not seen the first one in operation. All I can think about is how much one cost per month and how they just let them sit here. The superintendents that I have worked with in the past would surely have a heart attack here with the lack of production.

Okay, back to the awesome town of Assisi. Beth and I were both amazed with the quaintness of this town. It seemed like every window in the village was filled with beautiful flowers. Although we have only been to few towns outside of Florence so far, I think that we both agree this is our favorite. We both dreamed about having a small little bungalow in this town one day.

- WN