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Rain, Sleet, Snow, Fog
... exercise. Don’t miss St Claire if you go, but keep in mind that her place is closed at lunchtime so you may want to visit St Francis, walk around, get lunch and make it out to St Claire after 3pm.
This year, a new buddy and I ventured out to Orvietto for the day (I don’t recommend it from Perugia because it takes so long to get there and back by train). But it was a beautiful little town that should be on any itinerary to Italy. The ...
Car hire for 3 days over
Left siena with noddy, our car hire for 3days, fiat panda, just fitting in our bags. Headed off to chianti sculpture park, approx 30large pieces placed in woodland of visual delight. Pieces by artists from all countries and other pieces in owners premises which was an old pottery furnace. This building was incredible and the views, wow. Then to volterra, hill town of course, what else in tuscany. Stayed the night just outside wall area ...
The Land of Chocolate
Perugia. A cute and quaint town. However, I did not travel there to simply see old Italian buildings- I went there for the Chocolate Festival!
Who could say no to free samples of some of the best chocolate you'll taste. The "Perugina" brand was probably my favorite ...
Chocolate Festival? Sign me up!!!
... a sight it was! Stall after stall after stall of chocolate! And the smell! It was divine!
We found out it was possible to buy a "Chocolate card" for 5 euros which enabled you to get free samples at certain stalls. This included Lindt and Milka! We were also able to get a free phone case (which looks like a bar of chocolate!) from a stall called iChoc. Here, it was also possible to buy laptop covers, memory sticks, lamps, all in the shape ...
New Friends and a Great Meal
... for several years. He also traveled through Europe as a young man with some of his mates and they have a reunion of sorts every year. The bus ride goes fast because of the conversation and they jump off at the train station to check on their next destination, while we continue up to the top of town. We get off the bus and are hungry so we walk a short distance and get some paninos of eggplant, tomato, and mozzarella as well as a coke zero for Carols belly. We then walk ...
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