After spending the night in the little agriturismo, we woke up, had a lovely breakfast of home made baked goods and went on our way. We stopped at the Custodi Winery just outside of Orvieto. Our friends had gone there a few months before and highly recommended it. 
We got a tour of the cantina and did a tasting of their wines and olive oil. YUM! We bought a case of their white wine the Orvieto Classico, and a few bottles of their yummy olive oil.
We then continued on to a small nearby town about twenty minutes away called Citta di Bagnoregio. This little town is on top of one of the hills and is only accessible by a foot bridge. We parked our car at the base of the bridge in the nearby town, and walked across the bridge to the little town. 
Once we got into the town, we wandered around some of the cute little streets. It was only about a ten minute walk from one end of the town to the other, but there were a lot of cute streets to explore.
In the little streets, there were a number of very sweet tiles anchored into the walls depicting Mary and Jesus. I'm not ordinarily drawn to these types of things, which are all over Italy, but I found these to be especially endearing.
Once we walked across the town, the path wound down around the side of the hill a little ways until we came to a tunnel that we read about in our guidebook. The tunnel used to be used by the town's residents to transport goods. It was a very odd and somewhat spooky place to explore. Andy thought I was crazy for wanting to go inside!
But, he did eventually follow me!
After the walk through the tunnel, we found a little place to have a bit of bruscetta, which is one of the regional specialties. We ate in a tiny little, carved out, cave of a restaurant, where they had an ancient donkey powered olive oil press, and cooked the bruscetta next to an open fire in the fire place. It was very cool!
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