We approached Citerna about 12:30. The only hill was the last 30 minutes so we completed the 8 miles in about 4 hours, we do much better on level ground. Citerna was a very cool Medieval town with a large stone wall surrounding it, definitely created for defense. Our walk started from the center of the old town past the industrial part and into the tobacco fields. We saw tobacco being harvested, transported and even hanging to dry. We enjoyed some time with some gorgeous horses being housed right on our path. I found it pretty cool that not 5 minutes after asking Sonja to explain the crucification of Christ to me that we met Theodora, a woman who once we greeted she opened the door of her little church and with no prompting began showing us the 12 or so murals of the stages of crucifixion. It was our magic of the day. Seems every day we are blessed, hard for me to use that word, but it certainly feels like blessings, when I ask for rain we get rain, when I ask for Sun, we get Sun. I hope for salad, it appears, and on and on and on, too many really to keep track of. It feels once again as if the universe is not only looking after us but working with us, a sort of dance you might say.
It was warmer today, lots of sun for our mid day meal at a small cafe overlooking the valley. We are staying tonight at a little argurtismo outside the city of Citerna. Our kind hosts here will cook us an authentic Italian homemade dinner. But first some wine and chocolate on the hill outside our rooms.
We are joined by the cute young couple from Germany we have seen several times. She is going all the way to Rome but her boyfriend runs out of holiday time so he will only go to Assisi. She has done many a trek, so awesome she has that kind of confidence at age 29.
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