If you would like to see details about our journey, check out our itinerary and our bike route.
On our last day in Assisi, we took a train to Passignano, a small town on Lago di Trasimeno. After a quick breakfast at a cafe not far from the train station, we took a ferry to Isola Maggiore, an island with a very small fishing village, a castle ruin, and a stone church. We peeked inside an old house that is now a museum that was not open, walked up the one street to see the ancient stone houses, and ended up at Da Sauro, a restaurant with a patio on the lake and a set menu of pesce (fish) dishes. We relaxed, slowed way down, and just enjoyed the quiet on this no-cars little island.
After lunch, we had just a few minutes before our ferry back to Passignano, where we caught the next train to Assisi. We finished our last night with pizza and focaccia in Piazza del Comune, then walked down a narrow new-to-us street where we discovered several great small markets and bought food for breakfast and lunch the next day.
It was good to have a week in Assisi, but we are ready to move on. Two days and a night biking the hills of Umbria are waiting for Ken and me, and a night in Pesaro, a fishing and beach village on the Adriatic, is waiting for Meghan. We will meet up again in Ancona in a couple of days.
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| Ken captured this graffiti showing anti-US sentiments. We have not encountered any negativity in person. |
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| Meghan on the train to Passignola. |
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| Meghan near the ferry pier in Passignola. |
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| Leaving the pier in Passignola, aboard the ferry for Isola Maggiore. |
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| Ken and Meghan on the ferry. |
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| Approaching Isola Maggiore. |
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| An old house in the village on the island, now a museum. |
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| Ken and Meghan loving the quiet of the carless street through the village. |
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| The flower-decked patio of the restaurant where we ate lunch. |
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| Meghan and an old stone building. |
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| On the island, pheasants run free like feral cats. |
