Bill Thayer
10+ Posts
[Pauline told us to come back, so I'm back — I do what I'm told…]
Although travel anywhere isn't in the cards for me this year, if I could, I'd go to the areas hit by the August quake, they need the tourism. Some of the loveliest little towns in central Italy were affected, chief maybe among them my beloved Norcia: but in most of them there are still plenty of things to see, and — especially in the case of Norcia — to eat. So by way of encouragement, Norcia, Visso, Pievebovigliana! (Poor Amatrice and Accumoli are sadly beyond tourism, almost completely wrecked. The mayor of one of the hardest-hit towns, can't remember which, recently fulminating, quite rightly, against insensitive tourists taking selfies against the ruins: not cool, those folks.)
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Although travel anywhere isn't in the cards for me this year, if I could, I'd go to the areas hit by the August quake, they need the tourism. Some of the loveliest little towns in central Italy were affected, chief maybe among them my beloved Norcia: but in most of them there are still plenty of things to see, and — especially in the case of Norcia — to eat. So by way of encouragement, Norcia, Visso, Pievebovigliana! (Poor Amatrice and Accumoli are sadly beyond tourism, almost completely wrecked. The mayor of one of the hardest-hit towns, can't remember which, recently fulminating, quite rightly, against insensitive tourists taking selfies against the ruins: not cool, those folks.)
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