Green Hotel Assisi

Back to the land of pay toilets. Don.t know why that bothers me so much but it does. It just doesn.t seem right. Anyway, we are now in Assisi. We got off the boat and it was raining, and then we had to take a detour to Assisi. the road was very narrow and hilly, It was a little tense for awhile. Saw St Francis ...

So the morning came and Licia and I each took our turn getting cleaned and ready for our exciting chocolate adventure.

It was about an hour drive through the beautiful Umbrian countryside to the Perugia exit from the highway. At this time traffic was getting quite dense as was our anticipation growing.

Arriving at the base of the hills, we came to an enormous parking lot with carnival rides and ...

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 was a bitter day which gave me a perfect excuse to have some out of this world hot chocolate and churros. A bunch of my friends and I had lunch at a ...

... My friend has a nice, sparsely decorated flat in the heart of the village. We settled in and then went to the neighboring town of Amelia for a nice dinner.

Licia had worked in that region for a few months and had been recommended to a good restaurant near Amelia. We drove over the rolling hills to the small hilltop village ...

... and everything. We had a great view to the surrounding hills.
Perugia is a quaint town with cobblestone streets. We got a bit turned around and ended up back in the same spot we started walking but eventually found our way around the town. Then we headed to Assisi. We walked through markets and saw numerous churches. The stones and narrow streets reminded me of Siena. We grabbed a milkshake and gelato and headed back to Perugia.

... it caught fire. It screamed on as we sat threre. I could not shut it off. I madly searched for the main fuse, to shut it off before it fried itself or caught fire. No fire extinguisher, true to form. Just as I was sure that it would catch fire and put Igor out of his misery, it stopped.
A few minutes later, when I gathered up the nerve, and refilled the radiator, I tried the starter and the unit started just fine. Susan said that at that moment, she was ...

... but didn't work out that way. We had to spend a couple of days camping out in the port amid the truck drivers first! Still the kids enjoyed it as they had loads of room to ride their bikes! Finally got on the ferry and strangely we were allowed to stay in our caravan on board so we slept down in the car deck for the overnight crossing! The good thing about having the caravan is that it really doesn't matter where we are - we always feel like we're at home! We arrived in Greece ...

... Rome. It was really interesting, and was the first new touristy thing I have done upon my return to Rome. This coming weekend will be fun, but does not include any outrageously exciting plans. I have to go to a class on Friday, and a friend from GU, studying in Paris, is staying with me for a few nights. It will be nice to have a familiar face around for a few days. I am attaching pictures from this weekend, as well as some from my first few weeks back in Rome...enjoy!

... and the pilot said it would take a while bc our aircraft apparently does not have reverse.....this went on and on and eventually we had about 40 minutes before our next fight. So we get off and HAUL ASS through heathrow airport. We get to secureity and see a long line so i went up to a heathrow worker and told her our problem....to which she tells us that our flight had been cancelled.....WHAT??????? I did ...

En route to Assissi, we stopped at Spoleto. We continued onto Assissi, a charming quaint town. The birthplace of St. Francis, the founder of the Franciscan order of Catholic monks. After visiting the Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi and the castle, Rocca Maggiore, we ...