Cortona

24 May
A casual trip to Cortona, which is an Etruscan town in a huge valley that was absorbed by the Romans.  The valley is where Hannibal with his elephants lost to the Romans.  Our first stop was at an Etruscan burial mound about 2200 years old.  Then we stopped for a stroll to see a typical Tuscan villa and then on to the town/city.  Once again construction started out with temples to the gods, which were then built on to either make a church or public office building during the Middle Ages and then eventually absorbed by the construction of the D'Medici family in the Renanisance.  There are a lot of different architectures to see and then amalagated into functional stores on the ground floor and of course apartments on the top.  Today was only a half day of formal touring.  Free time in the afternoon, so naturally Roger and I had to find a self serve laundry, because we've been gone for 10 days and the dirty clothes were overtaking the clean ones.  There's no way I'm going to wash/rinse out a pair of Roger's jeans in a sink or bath tub.  This should take care of us until Athens.  I'm glad I live in the USA, because for the most part we haven't found anything cheaper here than at home.  It cost us 18 euro for doing just two loads of clothes.

I'll post some pictures once Roger loads them on his Nexus.  It seems to be working out OK traveling without a laptop, just some interesting work arounds.