We have taken a road trip for Christmas with three other senior couples. We are staying in a agritourisimo place between Narni and Tierini in the Umbria part of Italy, north of Rome. Oh my! It is such a beautiful place. Today we went to the nearby town of Narni, where CS Lewis got the inspiration for the title of his books about Narnia. The town use to be called Narnia. It's a beautiful old old walled town up on the top of a mountain. Th streets are all cobblestone and so narrow. Every turn, I want to take a picture of the old old buildings, doorways, or town piazza's which are small gathering places for people to talk and sit.
Sister Miriam Steuer and I
Look at the little shoes up on the window ledge.
We had a yummy lunch with hot bean and mushroom soup. Then we had cold cuts with a lot of different salami's and cheeses and yummy bread.
We found the street named September 20th which is a popular street name in most Italian towns. Italy was unified on September 20, 1870, when the people rose up against the Vatican and the church and unified most of all the separate Italian states. Now every town has a September 20th street that leads to the town cathedral. Here are us 4 sister missionaries along with two random Narni citizens.
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