Europe: Hope

Tuesday- To Venice (Orvieto)

I think we’ve officially given up on the bus music and we just listen to our iPods now. Most of the stuff they play isn’t actually ‘music’ just computers pretending to be musicians and it’s pretty poor form. I can’t believe people listen to this rubbish by choice. 

Rome to Venice is practically all day in the bus. Our temporary driver, Filio, and Kim decided to take us on a little detour to Orvieto to brake up the trip a bit. Orvieto is a quiet little town in the region of Umbria

What an amazing little town! It’s truly how we imagined Italy to be, and completely different to any of the Italy we’ve experienced do far. It was certainly ‘redeemed’ Italy to us. 

We had lunch up there (it’s on top of a massive cliff- we got there by cable car). I’m not sure if it’s an Italian thing, or just bad luck with most meals we’ve had in this country, but they seem to forget stuff. I never got the wine I ordered with my foccacia, and they also had to be reminded to make my foccacia- they’d only brought Luke’s coffee and croissant out! Most meals we’ve had they’ve forgotten something and the other night they even gave us something completely different to what we ordered! It can’t have been a translation issue cause they sound completely different…. It’s happened to a few other people on tour (the forgetfulness) which seems a little too coincidental. 

Anyway, when we got into Venice we just had dinner and slept. I’m sick of service station food and cheap hotel food.

-T

Quiet cobblestones,
Mountain tops, and vineyard views. 
Real Italia. 

-L

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