the Church of St. Francesco, next to the Square of the 40 Martyrs in Gubbio.
the first thing we did in Gubbio was not sightseeing, though, but trying to find a supermarket. which sounds a lot easier than it is. there’s not really much room between all the 13th and 14th century houses and buildings to built a decent-sized supermarket in. it’s not at all like Germany where you cannot drive a kilometer in any little village or great city without passing a handful of supermarkets. we saw a couple of small shops, but not much more.
so we asked. in Italian. asking is not really that hard if you had a couple lessons of the language. the hard part was understanding what the guy was answering. it sounded more or less like a single really, really long word that would tell us the way to go. and he wouldn’t speak slower even when it became clear that we hadn’t yet fully comprehended the things he was trying to convey to us. lentamente would have been of great help then, but the dictionary was in the car.
we did eventually understand him, and we did find the supermercato, and went there nearly every day. except for when one of the cars nearly broke down, that was the only real test of our language skills, but that’s another story…
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