Day Six

Yesterday we left earlyish, on a beautiful day, to Spoleto. Imo and I walked up the hill to meet Mum who had been at the post office.

A Roman arch in Spoleto: “Hannibal, after defeating the Romans at Trasimene, marched to Spoleto, and having laid waste the country, made an attempt to get possession of the town but was repulsed with loss”

Imo approaching the Roman arch

Me approaching the Roman arch

Roman amphitheatre in the heart of Spoleto

Two vines

More vines!

      We then went to a vineyard in San Marco, owned by the Antonelli family. We were

 

 

 

given a great tour by Wendy, an Australian lady who runs the vineyard’s cooking school, and whose grandparents lived in the same town in rural Victoria, Australia (Bendigo) as my Mum’s grandparents, it turned out.

 

 

A wine tasting followed the tour. Mum bought a few, including a delicious Sagrantino (the Umbrian grape) passito, a delicious, viscous dessert wine.

 

Nearby were two houses bought recently by American acquaintances of Beverley’s to restore – we had a good peek around.