Travel Ideas for Tuscany & Umbria Italy
I have to be honest with you straight away and say that Assisi is very touristy. It is often crowded with coach tours that include the sort of loud vacationers and tacky souvenir shops that I usually avoid like the plague. However, I did find Assisi beautiful and I have […]
I know a lot of people who have walked on the Camino di Compostela di Santiago, which is the most famous pilgrimage route in Europe but it has never really appealed to me. But listening to Sandy Brown talking about his experience hiking the Way of St Francis (Via di […]
The Umbrian hill town of Orvieto is one of the architectural and artistic highlights of Italy but many visit on a brief tour-party stop between Rome and Florence. Piazza Duomo is very busy around midday as coach-loads of tourists and school groups swarm around the famous cathedral. But once they […]