And on to Soriano

We closed up the house, and as we started the car in Umbertide, I noticed a ticket on our windshield.  We were ticketed for parking in a handicapped spot, although we had a handicapped placard, from the U.S. hanging from the mirror, rather than on the dashboard as done in Italy.  I took a picture of this, and jumping  ahead in that matter, this was Monday; when we got to Soriano, I got the Umbertide police’s email address and emailed the picture with an explanation.  Without an email reply, I called on Wednesday morning; when I got through, the lady said she’d gotten the email and the ticket was cancelled.

Anyway, we took off to meet Emily at Orte station, were a little late, and proceeded, guided by Waze on Apple CarPlay, to the familiar lot in Soriano nel Cimino.  We were welcomed at Palazzo Catalani, where Emily has a timeshare, including the handyman taking our bags from the lot to our apartment in his small utility vehicle.  We have a nice 2-bedroom apartment.  We had some food we brought over to eat on arrival, and had dinner at the property restaurant.

Tuesday we went to Tarquinia with the Etruscan Necropolis outside of town, and museum in town, and had a lunch in town.  A little episode before parking at the Necropolis: we started to park at a spot marked reserved for apartment residents, then decided not to, and lights went on the dashboard with warnings of imminent engine failure.  We went cautiously to a more appropriate parking spot, visited the Necropolis, and no longer had the warnings.

On Wednesday we stayed to explore Soriano, and had a disappointing restaurant lunch.

On Thursday we went to Villa Lante nearby at Bagnaia di Viterbo, an interesting estate built into a hill.