The Church Outside Castel Rigone

Castel Rigone is a smallish town up even higher (and a bit south and east) than Cielo Chiara, the lovely house we spent out Italian pre-tirement living within, and once we found the town we stopped in often (it’s only a short 5 or 7 minute drive on the back roads from Cielo Chiara). Usually, we’d just have a drink at the café in the small town center, playing Quiddler or having a snack with the drink. But once in a while we’d walk around the town (there are only a few streets, and some are solely walkers), to check out the amazing views of Lake Trasimeno, or to look at the lovely old church on one end of town:

Yet another amazing, little, seldom-stopped-at Italian town that you might just want to spend a few hours in, relaxing and enjoying the Italian sunshine.

*Note: We were on pre-tirement, and now we’re back. Want the full story? Start the pre-tirement journey here. Want to go backwards? Read the last pre-tired post here and scroll back. Or, just keep coming back for pretty Italy pictures.

Hillside Soccer Field

We went for a little drive through the hills the other day, even though it was quite foggy, and sorta chilly—I could sense that the blue sky was going to seep in and sweep the clouds away. While we were walking around a town called Castel Rigone (lovely little town, more photos later), that’s perched way up about Lake Trasimeno, I looked over one town edge to see a wonderful soccer field, perched on the hillside in between trees and a field. Amazing, really. It made me think of my soccer-playing nephews Kaiser and Coen, too, who would freak at the number of soccer fields here.