Sun 6pm - Montalto di Castro
- The guy was great he dropped me in the old town
- I walked around, but there wasn't much to see
- Good Montalto di Castro Info
- The town is spread though 3 parts old castletown, station 2Km and beach another 3 Km, so I walked out and then a bus to the beach. It was a bit tacky , lots of people, expensive cafes and drunk Arabic youths geting picked on by the caribinieri.
- The reason I was here was that Marco said there was a cool hippy beach near Montalto di Castro, but no one knew where it was. I walked 1Km to the last place .. past the Naval beach club..and across the river to the beach forest. There are some africans camping in the forest so I went a bit further.
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Mon - looking for the hippy beach
- No sign of the hippy beach at the south end, so I went to the north end. When I got to the north end of the resort at the little marina there was no bridge across the Fiora river..the river that comes from through Vulci archaeological site and then Montalto di Castro. So I walked inland 2Km and crossed the river at the railway bridge. When I got toward the beach again I was at a large power station .. I didn't realise it was nuclear. I walked the road north which came back to the highway and eventually I came back into Montalto di Castro.
| Real Hassle to get to Orvieto
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I'd given up trying to find the hippy beach and I had to meet Vilma. It turned out she hadn't gone to her friends in Alessandria so she wasn't on the train line to Montalto di Castro, So I said OK I'll go over to the east side of Lazio and over to Orvieto where the trainline from Venice to Rome passes.
- Of course at the bus terminal I just missed the bus so I had to wait 2 hours for the next one. I walked and got a hitch to Canino, but by then it was only another 30 minutes before the bus passed through. The bus zig zagged through historic castle towns and I was the only passenger, the driver knew nothing about further connections. So when I got to Valentano I found I'd just missed the last bus to Orvieto. OK go south to Viterbo, later an elderly nun on the opposite side of the road flagged down the bus and asked when the bus to Orvieto was.. the driver said she didn't know and left the nun, to wait for a bus which was nevr going to come. When I got to Viterbo there were no more buses to Orvieto.. I knew I there was a bus to Orte and a train there, but the Cotral bus was 2 hours later and the Cotral people wouldn't give give me info about the other bus company.. So I walked across town and found I had just missed that bus.
- So it was 9.30pm before I reached Orte on the Cotral bus. I came out of the station and I found it was the last day of festival in Orte ..the square was full of stuff going on ..there was some famous comedian on stage and a man I had met at the Cs party was playing keyboards for him. So I took the train to Orvieto at 10.30pm and set up camp on a hill overlooking the town.
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