Hotel Brufani Palace Perugia

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 ...

Hi Everyone!<br><br>This past weekend was the Perugia Chocolate Festival&#8230;It was amazing! Basically, I was in heaven. It was a chocolate lover&#8217;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 ...

... absenthe.<br><br>Next we decided to explore the surrounding village before entering the crowds above. Perugia is a beautiful midieval village and very well preserved. Incorporated into this ancient setting are some very modern things like an underground moving walkway, taking you through the mazez below the pallazo. On this day, there were special booths set up for children and chocolate vendors.<br><br ...

So Licia and I both had to work on Saturday morning so we decided to meet at her house when we finished and then drive up to Montecastrilli for the night. The weather was nice and as it was late afternoon, we had little traffic.<br><br>It was a pleasant 2 hour drive to Montecastrilli. This is a small village near the center of ...

... Birthplace of st Francis) and sits on top of a hill looking very sacred. We climbed to the top where an old fortress stands and saw the sights before heading home.<br>(Whitney)<br> <br>We had a pretty chill time in Perugia. It is a very nice area of italy- a bit more how I pictured Italy, actually. Locals on the bus helped us to get to the hostel but we finally made it. We stayed in a really cute farmhouse with horses and ...

... is famous for its chocolates. You can see that little architecturally has changed with-in the city walls in the last 400 hundred years. With a mix of past glories and a youthful vibe from the university it has a charm that is hard to resist. <br><br>We walked up to Piazza IV Novembre which for thousands of years was a meeting point for the ancient Etruscan and Roman civilisations. In the medieval period it was also the political center of ...

Holy ****! La Villa was like nothing else have experienced, it was crazy!<br><br>It must once have been some sort of gigantic estate because along with the main building (which I would hardly call a villa - closer to a mansion) there were quite a few different buildings there and each one had its own what I guess you would call theme. The main house alone had about three different options.<br><br>I am not entirely sure how the whole thing works but ...

... which involved throwing out discussion questions about various parts and symbols of the service, the Seder plate (which has on it several food items symbolizing the Exodus story and featured something that looked like a hairy rabbit's foot for the lamb shank). We sat with a neat family from Toronto. The dad knew all about Olean and St. Bonaventure's basketball team (you know these things are always happening to us). He and the mom (whose mother was Israeli ...

... to show passports, our registration papers, and supply 4 photos along with our apartment contract and additional copies of the passport. Had to fill out 2 forms, in Italian, and we finished. The police about had a cow because I neglected to put my middle name down. It was on my passport so I guess that was a no no. Too bad, he decided to accept it. On the way back to the apt. we bought more groceries ...

... seems something inherently wrong about it ... particularly on Sundays when people are coming out of church dressed in their sunday best! So we had only been out in the park for a little less than an hour when we noticed a group of about 10 Italian guys sprawl out a stones throw away. Flashback to Junior high ... boy sees girl, boy likes girl. Girl sees boy, girl likes boy too. However, both are too shy to talk to one another so they are reduced to making eyes ...