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I once overheard a couple of American tourists in Amsterdam talking about their visit to Italy and especially Rome. “A lot of really old stuff there.” Indeed.
A drive through the Italian countryside by an over traveled person like me makes me yearn for a place more permanent than the strip malls and suburbs of my home country. You caught the essence and I felt a little vicarious homesickness. Ancient Assisi, where once, a young man gave up a life of privilege and started a movement that continues to this day to help the poorest of the poor.
Oh how lovely 💚 My sister-in-law is from Umbria and she married my brother in Assisi. Many years later, I also married my husband in Città di Castello in the Umbrian hills 😊 Such a beautiful part of the world.
I once overheard a couple of American tourists in Amsterdam talking about their visit to Italy and especially Rome. “A lot of really old stuff there.” Indeed.
A drive through the Italian countryside by an over traveled person like me makes me yearn for a place more permanent than the strip malls and suburbs of my home country. You caught the essence and I felt a little vicarious homesickness. Ancient Assisi, where once, a young man gave up a life of privilege and started a movement that continues to this day to help the poorest of the poor.
Thank you, Candace, for sharing your visit.
Oh how lovely 💚 My sister-in-law is from Umbria and she married my brother in Assisi. Many years later, I also married my husband in Città di Castello in the Umbrian hills 😊 Such a beautiful part of the world.