This vacation started as a cruise, Marilyn's present to Val for her 50th birthday. We ended up building a whole 3-week vacation around it, am amazing adventure for the whole family. It is highly recommended that, since there are few captions on the pictures (sorry!), you visit our family web site (marilynj.com) and click on the link for our travelogue, which will guide you through the sections of the album,
The long overnight journey from Millbrae to Giove in Umbria, via Heathrow and Rome
This is a self-catering two-bedroom apartment on a farm in Giove. Erika and Charles rented it for us and stocked it with delicious food for our breakfasts and snacks.
Erika and Charles, Val's parents, live in the historic centre of Giove. Think of thick stone walls, narrow alleys. Erika is a great chef and prepared delicious vegan meals for us! Their apartment has sweeping views across the r…
You can walk all the way around the walls of this tiny neighboring town, and we did.
In the neighboring province of Lazio and very close to Giove is Bomarzo, another pretty old town with an amazing 17th century theme park. Really.
Another lovely small medieval town in Lazio, this place is known for it's stellar gelateria and its Easter Island style Moai statue.
We took the train into Rome and went to the Capitoline museum, lunch in the ghetto and San Clemente church with underground Mithraeum. It was a long hot day but fun.
