The Pleasure of small things

What makes a wonderful day?

-Clear, fall sunshine on your chilly face when you are out for an early morning walk with your freshly recovered, no longer limping, husband
-Finding a cheap hotel (65 Euros) that caters to young travelers BUT is remarkably quiet allowing you to sleep all night with only church bells as interruptions
-A great meal (last night's dinner of steak and porcini mushrooms and wonderful bottle of 8 euro local red wine)followed by the obligatory (and how will we survive without them) espresso
-Free wifi internet which we are currently using at a nearby cafe to download our e-mail and upload our photos to the blog, things we have been unable to do for weeks
-washing all of the dirty clothes early and knowing that when you are finished for the day you can pack mostly clean clothes
-finding the grocery store that has eluded you for the first three days in this town (the locals must buy their toothpaste somewhere) so that you can buy 35 cent bottles of water instead of the 2 euro bottles that look exactly the same but are sold to tourists
-clean, rain refreshed air after the brutal rain we experienced our final morning in Venice and the light sprinkles we have had every day since.

We are enjoying our stay in Orvieto. Tomorrow we take the train to Naples, then on to Sorrento and the Amalfi Coast. I will check in then. Now I am going to upload all of the photos I have taken in the last week and have been unable to post.

Deanne