Today was still not a beach day so we went to Popoli. It is a beautiful small city. There are parks and running water down town. What a difference from totally stone CVS. The churches were all closed, much to Jim’s relief, so we just looked at stuff.
This is the shoe store of my friend, Mica De Angleis’s relatives. It was exciting to find it.
This will come as a big surprise, but we stopped for pastry and coffee.
From there we headed a few miles down the road to Tocca da Casauria, no you have never hear of it. Again nothing was open and I do mean nothing. Sept 4 - 10 seems to be vacation time. The churches are probably closed due to earth quake damage, but it was still a beautiful town to walk around. In many places more modern houses have incorporated the original Roman wall around the town. Not many towns have their Roman wall still standing. They are salvaged for newer buildings.
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| interesting art |
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| downtown gas station |
Next we stumbled on the vineyard that makes the Montelpuciano wine in bottles have the little sticks on them, Cantina Faccagnini. What a place. It is huge and full of lots of eclectic art work. There was no one around. We spent some time in the tasting room, but no one ever came. I think we could have acquired a lot of wine at no cost.
We were driving on to Scafa, because of alleged hot springs, although now I think they are sulfur springs. We saw a sign that said “IKEA 15 minutes”. Jim hopped right on that. Forget sulfur water. 25 minutes later we were eating meatballs in the one week old Ikea.
Here it is pronounced EEKayAh. The man at the highway toll booth has learned to accept IKEA pronunciation. Well it was packed with people, but maybe it is because no where else is open from 1 - 4:30pm. Still it was more fun than Roma. The people were more laid back and we weren’t stressed from getting to the airport and picking up the car. Bonus question of the day: Did we spend any money?
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