Nutella Day - Day 2

Followed by Peach and Mistakenly coconut

We woke to get ready for our first breakfast abroad at 8.45am in the darkened room, lost in the huge bed. On opening the shutters we realised what a beautiful it was going to be. It didn't take long for us to get ready (I think Jo was spurred on by how hungry she was).

Downstairs for breakfast we were seated at a large table with cereals, cold meats, bread, toast, jams, cake and croissants. That wasn't all Simonette brought in juice, coffee (very nice) and soft boiled egg. We discussed where to go and Simonette helped us out with a map of Cortona. So off we drove on what seemed like a fairly casual drive. We found a free parking space it was not quite where S recommended due to the sharp bend Jo decided to take on two wheels with both of us shouting woooaaaahhhh. It was a lovely town not much to see there or do, wonderful buildings, apartments and street to look at. Of course there was the Ice cream shop (nutella to start) we found a public WC, and the car park we were meant to be heading to. At this point I decided to walk through Cortona to get to the Fort rather than take the car through the narrowest streets. A wise decision I feel, altohugh it didn't feel like it when we were walking, no climbing up through the winding streets, and up through cobbled steps, and up past the church. But the views were amazing and very quiet (obviously no one wanted to walk as high as us).

We went a different route which took us a quarter of the time on a more direct route and found ourselves back at the square were we first started and celebrated with another Ice cream Peach and mistakenly (a good mistake) coconut.

Back in the car for a trip to Lake Trassimo, which you can see in the distance in the photo above, with a few journey round and around the roundabout one dead end one nearly up a no entry we made our way to the lake fairly easily. Drinking freshly squeezed Orange juice watching the sun go down over the waters edge and looking back at where we had earlier climbed.

We drove back to Cortona for dinner and with briefly watching the swallows/swifts swoop around us for a little while the sun set, we quickly arrived at a recommended restaurant. Not sure what we ate but we decided that four course was too much and settled for a pasta dish each, ricotta and spinach with a plate of green veg (more spinach) and I had a sausage tortellini with a side of tomatoes. It was meant to be a quick meal so we could head back to the B&B for our champers, only we got chatting to a lovely mother and daughter form Canada. On returning we we found our free bottle of chilled Spamanti naturally we opened it and forced ourselves to stay awake long enough to enjoy the sweet bubbles of the sparkling wine, before drifting off for another sleep in our over sized bed.