More hill towns, too.

( Thus more picspam )

Umbria has hills. It also has a long history of violence and warfare on an epic scale. Consequently, people were less likely to build their towns on the plains, near the farmland and river (and mosquitoes, as it happens) but on more or less any convenient hill.

( Here are some amazing hill towns we visited. Multi picspam. )

Stuff has a habit of happening, and since we returned from Italy quite a lot of stuff has been happening. Daughter #1 is safely back from California, Daughter #2 is now in Edinburgh, working for a Fringe venue and loving it, we've been to a funeral, my essay has been completed and handed in. And suddenly it's a fortnight since we left Umbria and I' ( Read more... )