Day 20 (4/24) Caught in the rain

Today was a market day in Gubbio so we got up early to make it to the market. At 8 am the sun was shining, but when Al went down to the car, the neighbor told him that in an hour the weather will change. We didn’t believe it, but he was right on the money. On the way to Gubbio it started pouring and hasn’t stopped yet. The market was a disappointment. We expected local produce and products, but it turned out to be mostly Chinese junk at prices not any lower than in stores. There were just a few fruit and vegetable stands, but we managed to buy some fresh asparagus and sweet peppers from a young Polish man who told us that he had been living in Umbria for 10 years. We tried to walk in the rain, escaped for a while into the museum in Palazzo del Consoli, then into a café and then spent some time at the post office where Lucy was mailing her post cards, all the time hoping that the rain would stop. In vain. It kept coming down in buckets. Finally we gave up and went back home, opened a bottle of wine and eased into a rainy lazy afternoon.