Our trip to Italy…part one, Orvieto
June 25, 2008 by Cyndi Lavin
Filed under Home & Living
After flying from Boston to Frankfurt to Rome, we took a regional train up to Orvieto where Dani has been studying for the past four months. Orvieto is just about dead center in Italy, in Umbria, and has the most lovely countryside surrounding it you’d ever want to see. The train station wasn’t pretty, but everything else was. You’ll have to trust me…I’ll show you pictures of the town and the area in some future posts, but today I just have to start with my reunion with my girl!
Orvieto Train Station
Cyndi & Dani
Dani in the doorway of the Monastery of San Paolo, where she’s been living.
The stonecarving that Dani did, part of a project on St Francis…
…and part of a larger class project. Fortunately for us, it stayed at the monastery. Not that we wouldn’t have liked to keep it ourselves, but each block is 300 lbs!
Here’s Dani’s whole gang, at the family-run restaurant that fed them, together at a meal for the last time:
The stonework is astonishing. I love her tableau. Can’t wait to see and hear more. Sorry you were under the weather there at the end.
Thank you, Linda! We’re pretty proud of her
Well, we know where Dani got her talent from, tho, don’t we? But do we have to enroll to move into the Monastery of San Paolo? It looks wonderful!
LOLOL!! The monastery is terrific, Diana, but I’ll warn you…the nuns are *cranky*!!