Days 8-9 - Assisi

Busy days, with lots of rehearsals and the first concert of the festival. It’s been fun to play music I haven’t played before with a different collection of musicians. The venues are hot but I could get used to the lovely resonance they all provide!

Saturday I didn’t have any rehearsals until later in the day so I went for a longer walk. On the suggestion of one of the musicians here I walked to Spello, another beautiful hillside town. It was about 7.5 miles, most of which was downhill, hallelujah. Quite a bit of the path was on the “Assisi-Spoleto Olive Belt,” an area comprising almost 1.5 million olive trees! Spello itself is charming - lots of spectacular views and medieval architecture.

I took two trains and a bus (!) to get back to Assisi and managed to get to the farmers market on my way to the hotel.Read more