LAZY DAYS IN TRASIMENO

Sitting or lying around under the hot Tuscan sun feeling very reluctant to do anything more energetic than reach for a glass of something cool  or stand under the cold water shower by the lake.

Here in this family campsite the children run around freely making friends regardless of the different languages spoken.  All the Nordic and Dutch little flaxen haired children mingling with the mops of dark curly Italian kids.  The lake is not deep and the whole area is very quiet and safe .

Trasimeno is close to many interesting cities but the call of site seeing is not very strong this August weekend.

I was recently in Orvieto, the town of Papal refuge during medieval times.  It has an enormous cathedral to rival St. Peters and it also has St Patrick’s Well – This is no ordinary well and was built down in to the Etruscan remains of the city.  Can you imagine it is vast, over 53 meters deep and 13 meters wide.  Back in the 1500s donkeys used the two spiral staircases one for ascending, one for descending and each independent of each other.  The donkeys carried the water up 248 steps to the surface.  There are 70 windows cut into the wall to light the stairs.  An unbelievable feat of engineering.