So it's been a while since the last blog but honestly Iv been far too busy keeping an eye on the guests and keeping up with the daily jobs plus the fact Iv lacked a bit of inspiration for writing but today is different.
This morning Iv got a good start and headed up to Cortona, my local medieval town for a walk round before it gets too hot and crowded.
I parked the jeep in the lower car park near to where the mysterious Mediterranean Etruscans had very cleverly built a futuristic escalator that takes you up into the town and headed along Via Nazionale into the beating 💗 heart of the town.
Cortona is high on a hill and built by the ancient Etruscan brickies back about 400 years before Jesus started banging on about his book. ....so, historically quite old!
It's a higgledy-piggledy labyrinth that is a great place for a walk round, lots of interesting shops, quite arty and chic with loads of cultural exhibitions, a theatre and bohemian stuff going on all year round in and around the old town. Last time I visited they were shooting crossbows during a medieval jousting weekend!
Now, a week long music festival is about to begin....more about this later!'
Im always a sucker for a hill, so with the sun 🌞creeping up the yard-arm(?), i started the lung busting climb up the tiny winding streets, past the church of San Francesco and the quiet, eerie convents, up past numerous defibrillators and to my final destination at the top of the town.
The towering 11th century, Neo-gothic Basilica of SanMargherita, home of the famous Franciscan nun that was also undisputed founder of the cheese and tomato topping! Unfortunately, the pizza bit must have closed down but the church was still quite a spectacle with the views from the belvedere across the whole of the Valdichiana to Lake Trasimeno.
Heading back down from the death zone to a lower altitude I was actually still breathing and it was quite definitely brewtime, so a stop off for a relaxing morning cappuccino at Caffe Vittoria in the main Piazza Signorelli was in order and a great place for people-watchin' and a bit of bloggin' before heading off, as the merry throng of tourists start to arrive and begin to clog up all the pretty streets.
The Libertines bring you today's blog track. When Pete Doherty wasn't high on crack he made some cracking noisy tunes, this off the 2002 'Up the Bracket' album.
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