Teeny Tiny's Travel Tuesdays: Assisi

Of all the places Teeny Tiny has traveled, Assisi is the place that imbues him with the greatest senses of peace and wonder. Nestled halfway up Monte Subasio in the Umbria region, Assisi is best known as the home of Saint Francis, and his follower Saint Clare.

Teeny Tiny thinks of it as the place most likely to make him feel at home.

Here was the view from his temporary home during his time there.

What makes Assisi so amazing is that it is a place of pilgrimage. Thousands and thousands of people come through Assisi each month on their own personal spiritual journeys. Those journeys make the pilgrims a special kind of tourist, full of grace and politeness and quiet awe. The natives have become, consequently, the most welcoming people in Italy. They invite you into their spaces and make you feel less like an interloper than you usually feel when you invade a place with your camera, giant backpack, and broken Italian.

Even the scarier citizens are friendly.

In fact, Teeny Tiny covets a place in this community so much that he has found the perfect house on a foothill across a tiny valley, just in case he wins the lottery.