After our first day in Rome we traveled back to Orvieto where Melissa is staying to stay the night with her. It was only 7 euros for an hour train ride, which is a lot cheaper than getting a hotel in Rome for the night so we used Melissa’s apartment as a base point and traveled around from there! We were so exhausted from the travel and walking everywhere that we crashed early and then slept in a little bit on Thursday morning. Melissa’s shares an apartment with our other good friend Berta, they have this super tiny place, all there is a bathroom, one bedroom and another room that is the kitchen, dining, and living space. Which all total is super tiny! The shower was more like a sink that a big girl like me could seriously BARLEY fit in. the bedroom was also small with 2 twin beds that were right next to each other and the kitchen was smooched all together but it was a nice cozy place. Smaller than my apartment back in Manhattan, that’s for sure!
The entire town was exactly what I pictured when I thought of a tiny Italian Town, small, close roads and beautiful buildings. Population is about 20,000 and there isn’t much at all to see or do in Orvieto, I’m super glad I didn’t study there, I would have been bored fast, there is just so much to do and see in Trier itself! But Orvieto was super cute and peaceful!
the building where Melissa goes to class
The town its self is located on a hill, and entirely on a hill, on all sides around it at the bottom is another town and area, to get up to the top you had to take a shuttle thing, it reminded me of the thing you get on to go to the bottom of the Royal Gorge in Colorado. Then walking all around the entire town took like half an hour at the most.
Gelato! Lemon and Raspberry... my favorite!!!
The big thing in the town is the Orvieto Cathedral which towers over the rest of the town, and is beautiful! We didn’t go in it but we walked around it.
Melissa also showed us many overlook sites and all kinds of wonderful areas of town. We then went up into the clock town and got to look out over the whole town, it was pretty cool!
We cooked dinner 2 nights we were there, Spaghetti and then pasta with chicken and onions and potatoes, it was yummy! And then of course we had Gelato a lot! J
It was so great to have a place to stay in Italy, it saved us a ton of money to be able to stay with Melissa and we had a blast! It was nice to get to see one of my best friends again and spend time together! She is almost ready to go home! I am jealous!!! :) But we love you Melissa (Especially MEEE!!) and we appreciate all you did for us!!!!!
Love you too girly!
ReplyDeleteAnd you guys can stay with me anytime!
And quick dissin my town :P I love it here! Nothing boring about it! lol