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... 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

... has been renamed Paradise Hill.

We approached the basilica walking down a steep and narrow side street. From its front, the basilica is flanked by a wide expanse of lawn, where currently a large Nativity scene is set up. And, since it’s built on a hill, beyond the basilica you can see miles and miles of Assisi and its surrounding towns and villages. The site of the basilica alone is serene and gorgeous – but the interior is even more unbelievable ...

... centaines de grottes qui se trouve sous la ville. Ces grottes auraient ete creuse au tout debut, quelques 800 ans avant jesus. Puis elle n'aurait pas ete reutilise jusque dans les annes 1300 ou elles ont ete decouverte. depuis, les gens on commencer a les agrandir , tellement que cela a mis la stabilite de la ville au-dessus en danger. alors maintenant il y a des pilliers dans certaines grottes pour soutenir la ville.

We ended up in Orvieto sa we saw a friends photos of the catherdral and thought it was a must see. The cathedral was like a mini Florence Duomo, but 100% cleaner as the one in Florence is nearly black on the outside with pollution. The front facade on the cathedral is covered in beautiful gold leaf frescos that were glittering in the afternoon sunshine. Had a wander through the old town which was full of life as ...

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 ...

... on this winter night and had some sambucca to warm us up. ( Sorry - I can't seem to line the photos up with the text. I include a few more here - Saturday in Assisi and Sunday night dinner with our students at the Chinese restaurant.) Well. . . it is almost 10Pm here in Perugia. We were able to see every minute of the inauguration. It lived up to all expectations. I called Emily right after Obama's speech and she conveyed a sense of the ...

... the trashcan where i find mine, but Judy had given hers to the women behind the desk who said she threw it away in the big trash can and was not offering to go and look for it. So I was able to carefully peel mine off the paper and stick it back onto the original paper. At this point Judy is getting "hot under the collar" because the women is unwilling to help, but would be willing to return her money ...

... shut down in the early afternoon. After the rocca, I walked back down through town to see the major attraction of Assisi, the Basilica di San Francesco (Church of Saint Francis, the patron saint of Italy). It's a pretty impressive church, actually two churches, one on top of the other, because Saint Francis was so darn important. The bottom one is dark, with lots of little sub-chapels off the sides, and really nice decorations on the ceiling, as well as frescoes. It also has the ...