Our second and third wave of Spring visitors washed over us and has departed, ending that portion of our experience here as there are no more visitors planned. That is the first of what will be many lasts. Life has been rushing by so quickly that we have already had the last day of classes. All that remains is the mopping up before students leave late next week.
My brother, Nathan, stopped by at the tail end of a business trip to the UK. He flew over and spent the first part of his vacation week wandering Rome. It seemed like a good experience for him to be alone, but completely able to do what he wanted, walk wherever he wanted, eat whenever he felt like it and just enjoy being alive for a change. Two days after his arrival saw Amy’s best friend, Becky, arrive with her daughter in tow. Sarah hit it off with some of our students and spent a day in Rome with them while the rest of us took a trip through the countryside of northern Lazio and surroundings. We stopped for pictures at the belvedere in Montefiascone. Here are pictures of all of us with a hazy Lago di Bolsena in the background.
After that we continued on to Orvieto. Nate and Becky hit up the Duomo.
We had a great time seeing all of them, even though we were working and couldn’t spend as much time showing them around as we would have liked.
A week after their departure we hosted another of Amy’s best friends, Steve. We took him on what has become a fairly standard tour of our home region, complete with lunch at Civita di Bagnoreggio, a dip in the hot springs and dinner at Monastero. For his last day, we took the train into Rome.
While Amy and Steve wandered the city and saw the sites, I took in a local festival. More on that later.
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