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- Aug 4, 2023, 2:49 PM
- ☁️ 28 °C
- Altitude: 381 m
- ItalyLatiumBagnoregioCivita di Bagnoregio42°37’36” N 12°6’38” E
Day 26 - The dreaded Car Hire & Tuscany!
August 4, 2023 in Italy ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
Today we have one thing on our minds… We have survived Rome & Naples, now let’s drive with these crazy Italians!
Our car hire wasn’t until 11.30am - which worked out as a blessing as the metro was pretty quiet with our bags.
Firstly though, we went packed up our stuff, checked out and headed down to Il Nido Gusto E Miscele for breakfast and their amazing coffee.
We got the car, found out it wasn’t a Fiat 500 but a Volkswagen T-Cross, this is kinda a blessing as we know our way around a Volkswagen! We are glad all our luggage in the boot & we can keep everything out of site.
We then drove away from Rome, let’s say this about the days affairs of driving - we went through one red light, one wrong turn & one argument but no one tooted us, so we will call this a major win.
I did learn, if the sign post says 70km, everyone does 90km. I do what the speed sign says though as I am a law abiding angel! There may of been a lot of swearing at other drivers, but I kept the window up and smiled as they passed in ridiculous places… again, may of been, may not of been.
We were heading for our BnB near Montepulciano in Tuscany.
Along the way we decided to head to a small village called Bagnoregio so we could walk to the hilltop village of Civita di Bagnoregio. C ivita di Bagnoregio is a hilltop village in central Italy. It’s accessed via a pedestrian bridge from the nearby ticket office in Bagnoregio village. The Porta Santa Maria gateway was built by the Etruscans. Founded in the 7th century, the Romanesque San Donato Church sits in the main square.
This village is has a nickname of the ‘Dying village’, due to the natural occurring erosion happening on the hill - the engineer in me had to see this! Also this has recently been made a bit more famous thanks to TikTok & Harry Styles buying property in the village. There is 13 people that live in the village and there is more cat strays than people - these cats are well fed due to the restaurants looking after them!
We had some lunch in the village and then carried onto our BnB.
We made it to our BnB, Gianni made us feel very welcome along with his Sausage Dog. He makes wine himself so he had a bottle of Red wine for us (I may be half way through it now writing this - Katie will proof read this for me!) It is a lovely BnB with a lot of land and breath taking views.
He recommended a restaurant in Montepulciano that were friends of his, we went to it - Osteria del Borgo - we had lovely pasta (Fettuccine for me and Tagliatelle with fresh truffle for Katie) and great wine there. We opted to share a dessert of Sour Black Cherry Semifreddo made in house - I am glad we are walking so much each day!
It was raining quite hard which made coming down off the main village of Montepulciano interesting at night and in a car we didn’t know. We made it back to the BnB and headed to bed.Read more
All this sounds great Matt, you are very brave in driving in Rome. How do you get over the language barrier? Cheers, Charles [Charles]
Traveler Yeah he has done very well driving over here. They all mostly know a little English, otherwise lots of pointing at things 😂. We have also used google translate for menus and to work out the parking metres.
Traveler I was going to ask did you walk up it - but this video answered it.