Park Hotel Ai Cappuccini Gubbio

... 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.

... absenthe.

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.

Perugia, Umbria, Italy davefremland

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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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.

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 ...

... might be better...umm no. Was muddier and smelt funny. The ducks seemed to like it though! Decided to lie in the sun
anyway for a few hours and exit stage left..... I cant believe anyone would want to have a holiday there!

... We had passed a shop during the tour so we wandered back to check it out. Unfortunately they only had the size above and below mine, so I had to miss out.

We spent some more time in the shops and enjoyed a limon gelati before meeting the rest of the group to go to our hotel.

Our hotel was actually quite nice, the rooms were really big and it was in a lovely setting with a nice view looking up at the town. It ...

... Duomo. Never have I head so much English spoken as I did here. The streets were lined with gift shops hawking to the endless hordes of tourists milling about the streets. We arrived around 5PM and stayed until around 11. We were able to see the major sites, walk the ponte Vecchio and eat another delicious Tuscan meal. We just made the last train which connected to a bus in some small town. The 55km trip back took almost 2.5 hours. However the best moment from the ...

Sunday 28th May 2000 The day dawned with great anticipation. The Crossbow Palio. This is contested twice annually between the bowmen of Gubbio (Umbria) and Sansepelcro (Tuscany), in May in Gubbio and September in Sansepelcro. We spent the morning seeing the sights. The Roman theatre, right on the edge of the old town. Wonderfully preserved, and still used in summer for Greek and Roman productions. We walked the main streets, zigzagging up the mountain. While ...