Cortona - under the Tuscan sun fame

The trip to Cortona took much longer than we expected. If we had a car it would have taken about 40 minutes but with a bus and train and another bus which only ran every 2hours it took us 3 hrs to get to the town. When we got there we fell in love with the beauty of the place. It's got a relaxed but vibrant feel and we enjoyed just walking around looking in shops and beings tourist without too much of the gallery and church visits. We walked through the market set up in one of the Piazzas and just wandered down the streets looking around.

We found a park with families enjoying the outdoors. The trees were just beautiful and everything looked so lush.

I brought a really nice skirt in one of the shops and we had a great lunch of salad and lasagna which was almost as good as the one my daughter makes. The town is set on a hill like most of the others in Tuscany but the top is higher than any others we have visited. We did walk up it however and reached the church at the top. While we were inside it started to rain and as we had not planned for rain and colder weather we hurried down and warmed ourselves with a coffee and cake.
I found a fountain and a tap but probably not the ones in the book and movie.

It was a long trip back again and we ended up catching a train which has booked seats. We only had to get off at the first stop which was 18 minutes and would you believe it the guard came through asking for tickets. Well we had a ticket but it was for a local train and we could see he was thinking about what he might do. We were in luck as he clipped our ticket and moved to the next carriage. We gave a sigh of relief as he could have fined us.

We caught a taxi back to Cetona and decided to walk up to the pizzeria place for dinner before going back to our apartment. We fell into bed exhausted from the trip but we both acknowledged we really had a good time in spite of the travel time.