Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Starting the quest...

I am thinking about my two recent trips to Italy and planning the next one, but in the meantime, where will we live when we retire? At first glance, I thought that perhaps Umbria near or around Foligno. Our friends from Assisi thought that there might be some RE bargains there and in fact, actually found a couple of homes for us to view during our October 2006 trip. Well, not only did we not get to Foligno, but we didn't even get to Assisi for more than a half day and we completely missed our friends family (who were expecting us for dinner on Sunday the 21st or Monday the 22nd for lunch). We really felt like idiots because we could not find the restaurant.
But I digress...I actually was hoping to get started telling you all about our last two trips to Italy...

It all started in early 2004 while we were assisting with an adult confirmation class at out parish in Seattle. One of the participants in the class was a young Italian who was married to a Seattle girl and who wanted to marry in the church in Assisi later that year. Well, we started talking about how we would love to get back to Italy (we had been there in 1984, so it had been 20 years) and the newly weds invited us to their wedding scheduled for October 14 of that year...in Italy! We thought, what the heck...a darned good reason to take a dream vacation...so...the planning began...how to spend three wonderful weeks in Italy for less than $5,000!

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