Between Taggerty and Juba: Sitting outside in Assisi

We have had a wonderful time in Italy. We arrived in Rome from Finland early Sunday morning...and noticed at once the change in temperature! Booking a small car we made our way (Michael driving!) across Italy from west to east (Fumicino Airport to Pescara) where we stayed with old friends who live in the hills overlooking this seaside city. We ate well, going for a country meal of arrosticini in Villa Celiara, enjoying meals in the terrace garden of our friends and visiting the hilltop towns of Chieti and Atri. Cristiana and Guiseppe plied us with every kind of local food and drink and we spent lots of time chatting and joking our way through days and nights. Andy, their son, who of course was a small boy when I was in Hanoi, is now tall and going on 21! He is also a delight. Tomorrow we hope to go to Florence and then to Sam Gimignano before heading for Rome on Fridy and home on Sunday. Holidays finish too quickly!