Assisi Diary - Day 3 - A Good Meal

This will be a short post at the end of a long but good day.  Friends, on their first trip to Italy, were coming by train after taking in the wonders of Florence.  The train station for Assisi is in Santa Maria degli Angeli, a couple of miles from here.  I decided to walk down early and do some grocery shopping, then welcome them and ride back up with them on a local bus.  All went smoothly.  Once they were settled in at a convent, Saint Anthony's Guest House, we set out to explore some of Assisi.  One might have trouble imagining anything comparable to the art treasures of Florence; however, Assisi's treasures are special in a different way, as anyone moved by seeing, for example, the San Damiano Cross can relate.  We dined at I Monaci, a local restaurant with a wood-fired pizza oven.  I had a vegetarian pizza that had on it, among other tasty things, unpitted olives.  But the pizza was excellent, and the company even better.  A fine meal shared with friends at the end of a good day.

Ciao.