Civita di Bagnoregio...

This has got to be one of the most amazing places we have been to yet (well, maybe aside from the Colosseum). This town is completely void of vehicular traffic...why? One can only get there by the foot bridge! It is completely cut off from the known world because it is built on this piece of rock jutting up into the middle of this valley...crazy! Apperently, when the town was first built by the Etruscans it was connected to Bagnoregio by a saddle but that has since eroded away. So there is the town...on the top of the hill...in the middle of the valley...

Here is a pic of said valley...

This is the inside of the town's cathedral...

A fine picture of the fam under an arch...

There is a path that leads out of the town, down and around and into a tunnel. The Etruscans built this tunnel (tall enough for a woman to walk with a jar of water on her head) under the city and it is thought to be a short cut to the river below...

Pretty cool, if I do say so! So that was our Saturday in a nutshell...a pretty big nutshell! On Sunday, we had a quiet day...it was sunny and I had loads of laundry to do! We did go down to the shore for a nice walk and gelato. Apparently, on Sundays when everything is closed in Montalto...everyone goes to the Marina (beach) and the stores and things are mostly open! It is easy to forget that we live so close to the beach (being so white...redheaded...and easily burned...it is NOT the first place I think of to go). There were already people baking themselves in the sun! The beach is interesting to me. It has dark sand...I am guessing from volcanic activity...they get that black sand. It was the perfect day on the beach for me...pleasantly warm, not humid, with a relatively stiff breeze coming up off the water...perfect! There were not too many shells to be found but alot of drift wood that washes up...just interesting, especially since that was the last thing we did in the States was to walk on the Jersey shore...

I hope that you have a wonderful Tuesday! Tomorrow I am off to a fun adventure with cousin Jamie in Rome!

Ciao a tutti!