Hotel Fontebella Assisi

... are teeming with families, young people and older folks just walking enjoying the cool weather, hot coffee and all sorts of chocolate products. I even caught a wedding happening on Sunday. We have another two days here and will return to Rome on Wednesday afternoon….just in time for dinner and a full day of touring before heading back hone on Friday morning.

Best to all back home,

Jorge

... our way through more of Assisi’s interesting back streets, we arrived at our hotel room, tired but invigorated by this great place and such a fantastic day of seeing the amazing sites! We had a late dinner at a nearby restaurant, again enjoying cured meats and mixed bruschetta, beer, and a pizza (Murray), and a large salad and a spinach and sausage flatbread panini (me). We didn’t get back to our hotel until after midnight, as at dinner, we made friends with a ...

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 ...

... we made our way to some of the cathedrals and then down to the main center of chocolate wonders. I sasw a block of chocolate the size of a human being that was being cut with a giant saw the crumbled with a sledge hammer and sold by the gram.

By now the day was winding down and we had a long drive ahead so we made our way back down the hill and drove leisurely home!!

Good job, well done!

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 ...

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.

It was a pleasant 2 hour drive to Montecastrilli. This is a small village near the center of ...

... This Basilica was heavily damaged in the 1997 earthquake but has since been repaired. Our hotel was up in the Umbrian Hills overlooking the valley - very beautiful, peaceful, relaxing, with great amenities like a blowdryer and a full size bath!! Hmmm, it might be hard to go back to carrying our own backpacks and staying in teeney tiney hotel rooms!!

(C) We went to Assisi for a day and camped for the first time at a great campground on the side of the mountain. There's lots of good camping in Assisi - I think for the pilgrims. After checking in and getting the "you want to camp??? now?" we picked out our site close enough to the bathrooms to make the midnight trip in the dark - far enough away to avoid weird bathroom noises, and overlooking a valley with a panorama view. We had dinner in a ...

... cheap wine was consumed with the meal. No limoncello tonight, however. Had a great, rich chocolate crepe for dessert. I wasn't going to have one, but the girls ordered cappuccino and it looked too tempting to pass up. I'm glad I did as the crepe was too rich to finish on its own. Back to the hostel bar - the girls chatted with some others, but I felt like just watching some soccer on TV. Another late night. I am going to pay for this at some point.

... and was pretty familiar with both Italian and American politics!! the people you met sometimes.... so this was my first semi-drunk night in Italy!! i think i enjoyed watching Kali making acting like a dork more than anything!! that girl is hilariously stupid!!! (see pictures) we had soo much fun though, walking around drinking a bottle of wine in this park area by the guesthouse...these Italian teenagers came and started talking to us but we started ...