I'll be back. No doubt about it in spite of the fact that it is raining right now and it doesn't bother me one bit. Why? Because in the last two days we've finally enjoyed the true potential of being back in Italy and of being in Todi in general. Lord knows it hasn't been easy but we knew what it should have been and we have confirmed now what it can be and the full potential is phenomenal.
We got up this morning and went to have coffee with our favorite barista, Lorenza. She's so sweet. Always happy. Totally animated. And even had a conversation in part English and part Italian about Michael's tattoos. (She has a tiny one on her ankle. She didn't take offense at his risqué naked lady tattoo. And I think we managed to convey the appropriate meaning of "Breathe in. Breathe out. Move on." since I was sure that looking up the word "move" in her dictionary was not going to impart the appropriate subtlety.)
Then we strolled around town and while we were looking in the window of a real estate office, Mary (the viola player we met yesterday) came jogging by and stopped and laughed at how we were clearly hooked. Then she tried to get us to have more coffee? or lunch? or a day trip tomorrow to the Roman waterfall outside Terni? And gave us her contact number in case we need any help finding a place.
Then we went back to Orvieto. Now if you remember last week when we went on our anniversary we were thrilled to have nice weather. Well, compared to today last week was downright bleak. So, I'm going to simply let some images speak for themselves. There's just six of them but I'll post them in a few groups so it's not one big entry.
To start, here's Lorenza and me and then some poppies that apparently went crazy when the weather warmed up.
We got up this morning and went to have coffee with our favorite barista, Lorenza. She's so sweet. Always happy. Totally animated. And even had a conversation in part English and part Italian about Michael's tattoos. (She has a tiny one on her ankle. She didn't take offense at his risqué naked lady tattoo. And I think we managed to convey the appropriate meaning of "Breathe in. Breathe out. Move on." since I was sure that looking up the word "move" in her dictionary was not going to impart the appropriate subtlety.)
Then we strolled around town and while we were looking in the window of a real estate office, Mary (the viola player we met yesterday) came jogging by and stopped and laughed at how we were clearly hooked. Then she tried to get us to have more coffee? or lunch? or a day trip tomorrow to the Roman waterfall outside Terni? And gave us her contact number in case we need any help finding a place.
Then we went back to Orvieto. Now if you remember last week when we went on our anniversary we were thrilled to have nice weather. Well, compared to today last week was downright bleak. So, I'm going to simply let some images speak for themselves. There's just six of them but I'll post them in a few groups so it's not one big entry.
To start, here's Lorenza and me and then some poppies that apparently went crazy when the weather warmed up.
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