Saturday, March 7, 2015

3/7–Tuscania

Next stop – Tuscania. After we turn up the heat in the car and switch on Alice.  The route takes us through Tarquinia, where we see a sign for Porchetta.  Really?  Yes!  it’s too early now, but maybe on the way back?  We’ll have to think about that.  Off we go through the little roads and narrow 2 lanes through the countryside. Lots of farmland here – including double tractor trailers hauling hay and hauling down the roads at speeds that are better on the autostrada!  We’re calling this Australia-Italy, because it reminds us of those scary double trucks in Australia.

We make it to Tuscania without incident (thankfully) and find a parking lot right outside the gates.  We figure out how to pay (ask the tourist lady – you pay there!), grab a map and head into the walled city.  It’s a really great place. A lovely park around the one side gives beautiful countryside vistas (all sadly backlit at this point in the day, but still terribly picturesque).

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We wander through the cobblestone streets, snapping pictures here and there.

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It’s a wonderful little town – and if it were a little warmer, with a little less wind? We’d stay here for quite some time. But – you know?  It’s brutal – and we’re just not hanging out!  We stop in a café – the Duomo Café – for cappuccino and wifi – then head back to the car – and back to Civi. 

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