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Perugia Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Perugia, Italy
A day in Perugia
This is a top pick! ... . It takes about 20 minutes and it is good value for 1 Euro. After our metro adventure we roamed around the streets of Perugia for a bit, practicing the Italian art of doing nothing. That evening we went back to Claudio for our steak with cognac and white ...
Happy Bday to ME!
This is a top pick! ... made it easier for Linda to find the restaurant 'La Taverna'. This restaurant is the highest rated restaurant on tripadvisor for Perugia and the reviews are raving. She secretly made reservations here for my birthday. When we arrived at the restaurant ...
Back to the Countryside
This is a top pick! ... to go to, in fact a couple of places we had been to before, and we wanted to show Zonth, life outside of Florence Perugia Built on a hill, a huge hill in fact, and once the car was parked, we walked. The old city is good. It was hard to ...
The horse race of Siena
This is a top pick! ... the van and Lucy and I were sleeping under the stars. Melanie would insist all the windows had to remain closed, hence the outside sleeping. Perugia was good but we had driven to this area as we wanted to see Il Palio in Siena. The twice annual horse race ...
Mel's Birthday
... birthday cake. We then met the whole class out for drinks at the Terrazza (Terrace) which has a great panoramic view of Perugia's outskirts, and which makes really good cocktails (well, not as good as cookie). After lots of chit-chat and Mojitos, we ...
Umbria
Drive a long way to Montecino and the Abbey at Sant Altimo where we heard the Monks chant. Got lost a couple of times driving across to Montefalco to where our Umbria B & B was located. Navigator very stressed. Driver under control as usual. Visited ...
first few days
... . The area around the station is not much fun, and the city is just too big to deal with when I am so tired. So I got to Perugia yesterday. I had this idea that Perugia was less than an hour from Rome, and that it would be easy to come back for the day. I ...
More Pictures!
New Photos from my trip to Asissi (by motorbike) and a few from my trip to Firenze ...
assisi
I've just been bumming around here in perugia. There are lots of interesting people, and they are all friends with each other. I wish they were my friends too. the other day i realized that there are more people working at the hotel than i had ...
International Chocolate Festival
The international chocolate festival in Perugia was insanely overwhelming. But I did come out of it with a couple of chocolate bars and a new red ...
Day 1 in Italy!
... …2 minutes before departure. The rest of the ride was rather unexciting. I went from Ancona to Foligno changed buses and went to Perugia. I got a cab to my hotel which was much farther than the ferry dock to the Ancona train station, but it was less ...
A quiet back water
... had trouble hauling Stu out of the water!! but good views of the lake and nice to have the wind through your hair. Perugia a beautiful old town, I'd recommend coming to this area for just afew days and when some of the medieval festivals are on from ...
Cioccolato
Hi Everyone! This past weekend was the Perugia Chocolate Festival…It was amazing! Basically, I was in heaven. It was a chocolate lover’s paradise. We took a bus from Florence and arrived in Perugia by mid morning. It ...
Our Apartment
... Uni if this was true. She informed us that it was un-true. We will be sure to get them back somehow! Friday night in Perugia was our first party night. We began the night with drinks at Bar Eden and then went to Domus, the only centrally located ...
Arrividerci a Roma
... 't get internet access for a while. Today we got up and caught the bus straight to the Rome train station. We bought tickets to Perugia in Umbria. It is a medieval town built into the side of a hill and so beatuiful that the few photos I took don't do it ...
Just a little bit of chocolate!
... . Now this is the real heart of Italy, were you slow your pace to suit the life around you. One of Italy's best preserved hill towns, Perugia is famous for its chocolates. You can see that little architecturally has changed with-in the city walls in the ...
bad news
... at the beginning. wednesday nights my friends and i always go to the festa di rock at st. andrews, a little club in center perugia. it's a nice club. usually the bands are pretty good, and at least it's not an annoying discoteque. people go there to ...
Dash to Venice via Perugia
... to make watermelon gelato is very difficult and requires a lot of fruit because of the structure of the fruit. The camp grounds in Perugia are out of the city and not marked. The Italians are not good at marking places of interest – they need to ...
Getting Started
... to pick it up tomorrow. At least it wasn't my clothes they left. Then we got on bus for a three hour ride to Perugia. I slept almost the whole ride because I was so exausted and dehydrated that I was shaking and my head was spinning. Finally we arrived. ...
15th July 2000 Perugia
... . The base of the arch are the original Etruscan gateway, topped by Augustus when he re-founded the city in his own name Augusta Perugia. Subsequently, houses have been built into and on top of the walls on either side. We walked around the walls on a ...
In beautiful Perugia
... summer they don't make as much chocolate). Still worth it though because of course, it is a chocolate factory. The bonus was Perugia itself. This is a lovely area, very pretty and a beautiful old town. Early night tonight, the first for ...
Worst hostel yet, but interesting town
... my laundry done, and I had fun riding the mini metro around. I saw the hilltop town and got myself a fairly healthy grocery store dinner. Perugia chocolate is also mighty nice. I think my mood was a bit sour at this stop because I was a bit tired of the ...
trying out the site
Hi guys, Marianne has helped me set this up. Hopefully it will work, and you can check out the entries whenever you are notified that I have entered a travel log. Reply to the blog and I will know that you are getting the notifications. ...
Friday in Perugia
Ciao Tutti, I am just out of class and trying to figure out what I have done this week! I can tell you not much besides going to class and coming home for dinner, etc. We are trying to convince ourselves that we are ...
A great Saturday!
... ; Guiditta di Perugia (Giuditta I am told by people here that Giuditta is a name from the bible - as you know, I am such a ...
A wonderful Sunday then back to school
... in the fact that they occupied an entire floor and it was just the two of them. An absolutely wonderful day in Perugia with many different activities. We are settling in nicely. Yesterday we were scheduled back at ...