After circumnavigating twice the road around Orvieto we made comfortable progress until a lorry in front of us started to shed its load, luckily out its side rather than the rear. Avoided the debris with a risky manoeuvre but all was well. Parked just outside the city walls and quickly found the Hotel Roma 5 minutes later. The landlady was a blousy blonde woman who would have made a good role in “Only fools and horses” who talked over us and everyone else. Hotel not the best we’ve occupied but will do for a night. At 10.30 the temperature was already 33°c but we still spent 2 hours exploring the backstreets and found an unusual piazza, the “Piazza della Morte” which was built on an Etruscan burial ground and certainly felt ominous and too shady for midday.
Soon after we left the piazza we received a call from Siรขn informing us that Kay’s son David had admitted himself into hospital with chest pains and promptly had an emergency operation to have two stents put into his coronary arteries! He’ s ok, but we think Kay might want to stay at home instead of coming to Rome to see us. We called Kay but she didn’t have enough information to decide what to do.
To take our minds off David, we found a launderette and, after doing the washing, bought some milk from a supermarket for some tea. We both took tepid showers as the temperature was now in the high 30’s and at 7.30 sallied forth for dinner. The Rough Guide recommended the “Tre Re” and we eventually stumbled upon it and ate a fine meal of porchetta, pine nuts, lemon and prosciutto for €45. Still too hot for sleep so we ambled around for a while to encourage Morpheus’s embrace.
Went out without the camera today so no photos.
Hello
ReplyDeleteI hope David is ok?
Angie