Subasio Assisi

... and everything. We had a great view to the surrounding hills.
Perugia is a quaint town with cobblestone streets. We got a bit turned around and ended up back in the same spot we started walking but eventually found our way around the town. Then we headed to Assisi. We walked through markets and saw numerous churches. The stones and narrow streets reminded me of Siena. We grabbed a milkshake and gelato and headed back to Perugia.

... Today the square is still a local meeting point for tourist and students alike.
The heart of the square belongs to Fontana Maggiore (Great Fountain) built between 1275 and 1278 by father and son team Nicola and Giovanni Pisano.
At the other end of the Piazza is the Cathedral of St Lorenzo with its pink façade, which was never truly completed. Work begun in 1345 and continued until 1587, however the door way was only built in the late 1700's.

... 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!

... white clouds. It was idyllic.

Heading back down the hill we stopped at Castelle de Campo. The castle overlooks the Spoleto valley. People are living there today and the Duomo is fully functional inside the walls of this tiny medieval town. Reaching home again in the hottest part of the day we jump into the pool to cool off. Refreshed we drove into Campelle de Clituno for the daily gelato. Shopped the ...

... restaurant to have dinner late, by our standard and arrive a half an hour too early. We had an antipasto as Mike suggested but didn't stop there, we ordered pasta. I had the potato gnocchi with truffles and mascarpone. Marty had the pasta with spicy red sauce. Stuffed with doggy bags in hand, we staggered back down the hill in the cool night air.

... to Malpensa and 5.5 hours. That's when I knew I did something wrong when I programmed it. It should only be a three-hour drive. So I reprogrammed it and it calculated the route then asked me the question again. I said yes again and it recalculated the route again. That was the problem. So I did it over and said no. Trusty little TomTom gave me the right route, took me back into town to the autobahn headed to Verona. I followed the new route retracing my ...

Hey guys- Well, today was a pretty chilled day...I couldn't sleep last night (I think because Tony and I are so relaxed that we don't need much rest). Anyhow, we woke up and had breakfast overlooking the Umbrian valley again this morning. Although, it was much cooler than the past couple of days. About 6 degrees Celcius. Today we drove to Assisi to pick up Maren (one of my dear childhood ...

... We can see Assisi, which sits on a hill just out from us. So far, we have driven through it, and yesterday we got to the top and walked around the fort at the top (Maggiore Rocca). We have been told that by tomorrow some of the crowds will thin out. Right now, it is really crowded. Between our villa and Assisi is a little town called San Maria degli Anglisi. There is a beautiful cathedral here, which is where St. Francis died and is entombed. He is here ...

... is not a walk, its a steep trek) to an internet cafe to write home. That done, the girls I was with decided to do some sunbathing/people watching on the Temple of Minerva stone steps. I couldn't take the sun so I headed back to the hotel. One the way back, I ducked into a souvenir shop and bought a book on Assisi (great for pictures I couldn't get, like inside churches and museums), a few postcards (another awesome idea--buy postcards for professional pictures in case your ...

... to throw a dice at each fork in the road. Eventually we made it to Spello. The advantage in approaching from Mount Subasio was that we discovered a car park at the top of the village, and therefore explored a part of the town we had not seen in three previous visits. While they know how to extract the tourist dollars or euros in the lower part of town (and probably in the upper as well), it is the upper part of town that seems to be the more affluent part ...