Hotel Giotto Assisi

... today. That has to be my favorite saint. Very busy here even though end of season. No wireless interent. We have one more day and we start home. I think we are ready to get home. It has been beautiful here and I have learned so much, but all good things must come to an end. See you all next week I hope.

... 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!

... pizzeria where I had delicious lasagna. After lunch we browsed through the many stands. Sample after sample led to some major purchases. It was hard to pass up the various chocolate products when the smell just filled the air. There was everything from chocolate beer to chocolate “pills” to chocolate pasta!!

Heaven.

I’ll update you soon,

Siara

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 ...

... 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.
(Whitney)

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 ...

... br> Then, when I stopped and turned off the steaming vehicle, the starter continued to run. I did not know that this was possible. The starter, the one that cacked out in Seville and was replaced with a perfectly good rebuilt one, decided not to shut down. It ran and ran after the vehicle was shut off. It heated up. Black smoke started to billow from it. I could smell a very hot elictrical smell.
I madly looked for the main fuse, to shut the thing off ...

Hello Everyone! We just arrived back in Italy yesterday having spent a glorious month in the sunshine! We loved Greece and had a great time there. Got masses of photos so gonna put them on first then will add detail afterwards if there's time! Ok here goes! We left Pompeii and drove across to Bari to get a ferry. Fortunately the weather did improve following the last entry so Italy didn't seem quite so bad as we left it! We were hoping we'd be able to get a ferry to Greece straight ...

... that he rebuilt and used as a home base was later covered with one of the largest churches in the world, the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli. It is very strange to walk into this gigantic church and see this tiny, plain stone chapel sitting in the middle (frescoes added later). We didn't spend too many days here but we enjoyed every minute we spent. We recommend this place to anyone.

... the whole thing. It was nice, though, to be surrounded by Americans...but I can now safely say I know why other nations hate us so much: we are super obnoxious. Because of the noise policy in centro di Roma, we had to be quite when there was any sort of play, but the other Americans in the bar were really obnoxious; I hated us that night, too. Today, my friend KC and I visited the Jewish museum and synagogue. I learned lots about Judaism, and their history ...