Collepino

Got up earlier today and made most of nice weather (not super sunny but tshirt weather before a little light spitting so we were happy). Decided to walk the old Roman Aqueduct trail to Collepino.

Not a super historical trail although we were walking beside a wall that presumably is or was the aqueduct. Served the area until 1900 or so, and was then forgotten and was then rediscovered and repaired... ish. Clearly marked trail, and had random sayings imprinted on blocks throughout. Favourite (and only one we could easily translate) was from Einstein: "the mind is like a parachute - it only works if you open it".

But overall trail was beautiful just walking through trees etc. Had nice views of Spello and the Umbrian countryside. Trees were nice with all the autumn colours. Took a while to get to the end and we probably should've just turned around early as the last part was disappointing (and there wasn't anything really at Collepino).

It was small and cute, but basically a ghost town and neither the one restaurant nor the one cafe were open at 4pm on a Sunday - understandably. So not really worth the steep uphill trek (including going astray for 5 minutes before realising our error). Did make some random cat friends though.

Walked the car road home and considered hitching but was nice going downhill after we had cooled down. Each listened to some music, had a relaxed walk back in the fresh cool air. The way back was much quicker coming back. 2 hours ish there and 45m back or so.

Then grabbed panini (one hot with roast pork and one cold with salami, both delicious) and some snacks and came home. Relaxed and then got takeaway pizza. Note to selves - prosciutto crudo (raw) can be good on toast but is consistently bad when baked on pizza. Will steer clear and stick to our mushroom or vege pizzas mostly (or plain).

Now packing before we head to Florence tomorrow! Photos of first half of walk - second half in next post.Read more