Blogs from Perugia, Umbria, Italy, Europe - page 7

I did a day trip to Assisi today. It is only 20 minutes away by train. When I arrived in Assisi I got a bus from the train station to the town proper. I walked down to the centre and immediately fell in love with the town. It has small cobbled streets with beautiful buildings flanking all the roads. It is the kind of town that you could easily get lost in but not be at all bothered about it. I went for a wqonder and had a look at the duomo as well as St Francis' basilica and other churches. I then headed up to rocca maggiore. This is a castle perched high above the town. I had a good look around there and climbed the towers to get amazing views of the town and ... read more

Geo: 43.1107, 12.3892 GUN 9 günlerden PAZAR Çoook güzel bir uyku çekmişiz. Uyandım ve toparlandım. Notlarımı gözden geçirdim. Hesapları not ettim. Aletler şarj oldu. Kahvaltımı yaptım. Ve dahi market alışverişimi.. Paralarımızı ödedik ve hemen yola girdik. Bu saydıklarımız kamp dünyasının rutin faaliyetleri içindedir.. Yola çıkmadan önce Paramızın durumu nedir ? Aletler çalışıyor mu ? Dünkü notları unutmadan not ettik mi ? Gideceğimiz hedefe ilişkin son hesaplamalar ..bir şey olursa alternatif yollar, seçimler , Alternatif kamplar ,Otoban paralarının hazırlanması hep rutin faaliyetler Kaldığımız yer otobana çok yakın… Hatta otoban ayağında ... Dolasıyla fazla dolanmadan Perugia yoluna gird... read more

Day 12 Hanging out in Spoleto The weather was wonderful again today: crisp and sunny. We did a lot of walking: over the Ponte delle Torre to a church we saw on our hike, around the Rocca, and back to the church I'd visited when Bill was ill. We are now packed and off to Perugia tomorrow for a three day stay. It has been fun having a kitchen and being able to shop and get to know merchants a bit (I love being greeted with "Ciao bella"!)...I'll miss that! Spoleto is lively and full of culture, history, and nature...but there is a much too noisy nightlife that passes right in front of our apartment....we never did figure it out. Cars start pouring through the little intersection around 11:00pm, coming from below and heading back down ... read more

9:33 This morning we headed out to see several vineyards, but Dr. Lees surprised us by having our bus driver stop at the long-lost Etruscan tomb which we had tried to see earlier but hadn’t been able to because of the rain and not knowing how to get there. He has been trying to see this for 3 years and hasn’t been able to find it. He even called the place and they couldn’t tell him out to get there! So we started the morning off by looking at more Etruscan tombs. These were very different from the necropolis at Orvieto. All of these tombs were from one family and were built over such a span of time that they never were organized like the Orvieto tombs. These were also not made out of stone blocks, ... read more

10:06 pm This morning we headed out to Assisi, the home of Saint Francis and Lady Claire. We hoped on a bus for a 45 minute drive to Assisi and got a quick nap in along the way. Our first stop in Assisi was the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Angels. This Baroque Cathedral was built around the place where Saint Francis chose to live out the rest of his life in a little one room church and the place where he laid down on the earth and died. Assisi, like Gubio is built on a hill. Back in Francis’s time the top of the hill was reserved for the highest class and then the class rank went down as you went down the hill. So the place where Francis (who believed in giving away ... read more