A Year in Viterbo: Getting here...

Sunday, August 25, 2013

Getting here...

Well, we knew it would be an adventure, just didn't know it would take 24 hours door to door! Travel complete with delayed flights, rebooking, lost bags, miscommunications, inability to connect with driver, etc...

But it was all worth it when we stepped into our new home and felt the breeze coming in off the terrace. We all love the terrace (terrazza). Max draws and plays games out there, the cats love to roll around in the sun and chase flies, Rick and Whitney like to have something cool to drink and people watch.

View of the theater, from inside apartment.

Max and Pickles on the terrazza

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moongazer849August 29, 2013 at 5:33 PM
Hey Whitney -- what an exciting opportunity to be in Italy for the year! You all should love every minute -- what a memory maker. HAve tons of fun. Look forward to watching your blog. Lots of love, Jennie
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In August 2013, Whitney, Max and Rick moved to Viterbo, Italy for the school year. Whitney, who works for School Year Abroad (SYA), is working at SYA's school in Viterbo. Rick brought his work with him, plugging in via WIFI just off the terrace above Piazza Verdi. Max, taking the biggest cultural leap of the family, started first grade at the local, Italian-speaking public school. La Scuola Elementare di Silvio Canevari.

Viterbo is a small, wonderful city, well preserved from medieval times. An intact wall, built in the 13th century, surrounds the city. Excavation beneath the passages of the Papal Palace reveals artifacts of the Etruscan period dating back to about 500 BC. Narrow roads of successively larger, older cobblestones twist up and down from the well trodden main roads such as the Corso and Via Marconi, where we live.

Home of around 60,000 people, Viterbo draws widely as the provincial capital and feels more populous. It sustains, for example, more than 100 restaurants, a university, and at least a half dozen book stores.