Back to Italy

Back to Italy this month with the Hacker men (husband and father-in-law) because we loved it so much here two years ago.

We flew into Rome from Chicago, and headed out in our rental car with my husband driving to Spoleto for 3 nights at the Palazzo Leti whose garden is pictured above. It's a very nice beginning to what I know will be a great trip!

Finding our hotel was our first challenge. Spoleto is not easy to navigate as there is a lot of congestion from construction equipment as a major restoration is going on in its cultural center. Its narrow streets limit which direction you can go. The stop lights that were obscure to us the first day are now clearly seen tucked in odd places where no rules seem to apply on their location. At one point coming into the middle of town, we were surrounded from all sides by cars, each wanting to go where the other one was. Driving in Europe is not for the faint of heart!

We are on a mountain, overlooking a green valley out our window of this lovely, historic property.