Assisi 1

Subject: Ciao ciao
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 19:01:10 +0900
Ciao
I have found an Inetrnet cafe near where I am staying in Assisi.
I was going to upload photos but no luck.Forgot the password.
The location of St Anthonys Guesthouse is superb, between the cathedral of Stclair and the St Rufinos.
I arrived on Friday about four pm after about thirty hours travel. I was welcomed by Sister Sue a French Canadian. I love my little room with bed, table and bathroom facilities. It is very simple and has shutter windows looking across the entrance to an ancient stone wall.
i am immersing myself in the pilgrim culture here. Yesterday I walked to St.Damianos an ancient monastery and then returned there in the evening to the reciting and singing of the evening prayers. Today i was up at 6am to go to the nearby St Clairs to hear the cloistered nuns singing the morning lords, followed by mass. Reassuring all this familiar Roman Catholism. Then back to the convent for my breakfast of bread rolls and warm milk and coffee.
So today I plan to walk to the Eremo where St Francis spoke to the birds.
The weather is wintery with occasional gusts of freezing wind, but I am all rugged up so no probleme.
The Italian keyboard is alittle complicated especially numbers and exclamation marks
A biento
Gerri