Strolled through town on a Saturday night. The vendors hand tents with an assortment of goods and food. Nothing special or spectacular but it was a nice night with plenty of shops and restaurants to walk past. It was a nice way to experience the town though

Whilst staying in the Abruzzo region in April, we found all too often that the things we had selected to do each day were inevitably closed. We would typically arrive at a town or city around 11am and after grabbing a quick coffee set off for the first monument, church or tower. The running joke by mid way through the week though was that whatever we selected to do next would not matter as it would inevitably be closed anyway. Just a shame it all too often proved to be the case. This usually resulted in us visiting churches or just wandering around the town, centres and side streets looking for things of interest. What so often became most apparent to us was the increasing urban decay, all too common with most towns worldwide, and the extent to which the graffiti spread across so many of the buildings even those that should be considered monuments or religious sites. A bit disappointing really