Day #93 in Orvieto

May 26, 2013 - Sunday

Laura and I woke up early this morning, packed our backpacks, and went on a day trip to Cortona. Last night around midnight, Laura told me that she wanted to go to Cortona and asked me if I wanted to go with her for the day instead of doing our normal Sunday routine (sit around the monastery and/or craft in the studio). After this weekend, we only have two full weekends left so that's why we went today! So we went down the funicular and saw that our train was 35 minutes late which was annoying. So we waited there forever and then finally the train came. It was about an hour long ride to Cortona. Once we got off at our stop, we needed to either take a bus, walk, or take a taxi. We saw that the buses weren't running on Sunday and we knew it would take about an hour to walk, so we took the taxi ad thankfully there were two other people that needed to go up to Cortona too so it wasn't too expensive. The taxi driver was really friendly and seemed to act like a tour guide because he was telling us all about Cortona and the churches there. So he dropped us off at the top and we bought sandwiches for lunch before heading off to find the trail we wanted to take. A few people in our Orvieto group had been on different weekends, so they told us to take this trail to Chiesa di San Francesco and the monastery there. They told us that it was really easy but of course Laura and I quickly became lost (not sure why Laura and I have the biggest travel struggles whenever we try to do something). After walking for about an hour, we made our way through the trails and reached the monastery. It was so peaceful and quiet except for the birds chirping. It sounds like I'm exaggerating but you could seriously only hear the birds. So we spent a few hours there before we began the journey back to town. We only got lost once on the way back. It was around 5pm then so we walked through the antique show that was apparently happening, got gelato from 'the best gelato place' according to our friends. It was definitely the best even though it had a weird name like "Snoopy's" or something.

Eventually it was time to head down to the train station again for our 6:30 train. We didn't want to pay for a taxi and we thought it was be fun/easy to walk. Once again, we got a little bit lost but the weather was good and we ended up at the station 30 minutes before the train so we had plenty of time. On the train we did our homework for Poetry tomorrow and then made it back to Orvieto just before dinner. :) 

The beginning of the day was pretty cloudy

On the trail!