http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Umbria/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Europe , Italy , Umbria en-us Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:43:27 UTC Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:43:27 UTC FranaisFrench Nous avons ariver a Rome est on a partie dans un rental car a Spoleto dans la region de Umbria. Il y a des olive sur des arbre. Nous avons vue baucoup de nos amis de Italy ici aussi. Il n y a pas plus a dire donc avoir pour maitenemp Cristiana P.S. Papa et sur son quatrime capuccino aujourd huiEnglishAnglais We arived at Rome and left in a rental car to Spoleto in the reg http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Umbria/Spoleto/blog-347246.html I would like to start off this blog entry by saying Thank you to all you following my blog. I have recieved many wonderful messages of encouagement from you and am truly thankful. Please continue to keep reading and sending messages I love hearing from all of youHalloween came and went in Perugia without much notice. Halloween in Italy is not that big of a thing but anything that somewhat http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Umbria/blog-344521.html The Eurochocolate festival was in Perugia Italy. It was crazy to be around so much chocolate. I love how Italy has a festival all about chocolate. http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Umbria/Perugia/blog-344366.html The Saturday after returning from Fall break I participated in the largest chocolate festival I have ever seen Eurochocolate takes place in Perugia every year and for about a week the streets of the city center are filled with venders selling every form of chocolate ever imaginged. My roommate Jackie and I braved the crowds to go experience the amazingness that can only be created by mass amoun http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Umbria/Perugia/blog-343354.html On Friday I visited Perugia for the annual Chocolate festival with Olivia and Jasmine. We had a great day in spite of spending about 6 hours on trains. Perugia was nice although I am finding that the more I visit other Italian towns and cities the more fiercely loyal to Bologna I feel. Possibly because without exception everytime I have left Bologna I have had some sort of allergic reaction a http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Umbria/Perugia/blog-339433.html Buona sera from Umbria ItalyI have not had much luck accessing the internet in the last week. In Rome I was too sleep deprived or too busy seeing the Vatican. In Bari where we stayed the night before we began our bike trip I did not try and at the 3 ldquohotelsrdquo we stayed at during our bike trip only one ldquotrulyrdquo had an Internet connectionmdashand that one had the one c http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Umbria/Todi/blog-338505.html So here are some random happenings that have occurred around Perugia apart from traveling. I went to the Saturday Market down by the stadium two weeks ago after I came back from my field trip from Rome. I went with a girl from school named Katie and we left pretty early so we could see everything without the crouds. THere was everything there clothes meat produce house wares and even...ani http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Umbria/Perugia/blog-338374.html I was supposed to write in the last blog about our trip to Assisi last Friday but I didn't get around to doing it. This was our last excursion paid for by the study abroad program and is probably one of my favorite. My favorite was the trip to Cinque Terra. Pictures from that trip are posted in one of my previous blogs... gorgeous. So back to Assisi. The town is located in the Umbria region of Ita http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Umbria/Assisi/blog-337356.html This entry is just about some things I have done while here in Perugia during the weekotherwise I don't think all of my pictures would load...Ok this last week was pretty eventful I went to a coffee seminar through school the Opera and to Tandem a group where we get together and speak with local Italians. The coffee seminar was led by Zach the guy who organizes most of our local cultural a http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Umbria/Perugia/blog-331911.html The time is 02.30 a.m. Thursday September 11. I'm sitting on a rock outside Tuval's gate the smell of refet wafting into my nostrils. It shouldn't have been. I should have been in a taxi on my way to Yoni's on our way to the airport on our way to Umbria. And Yoni isn't answering his phone. His secretary was meant to have ordered a taxi to pick me up from Tuval at 2.15 and Yoni from Manof at http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Umbria/blog-324973.html It rained overnight and Saturday started as a grey morning. We had a deadline of 900 am to return the hirecar to the local airport so that was the focus of our morning. We were on our way following the instructions dictated by the GPS. recalculating....oops not again. Sometimes the most direct route is the tiniest of back streets. Roadblock. recalculating..... silence. then more http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Umbria/Assisi/blog-324307.html It was an early start but it was worth it. We fitted in a few hours in Siena and still arrived in Perugia in time to have a look around before it got too dark 800 pmSiena is a lovely city full of cathedrals museums but we could only spend a few hours wandering the old streets in the centre of town. We tried to contact Henry a couple of times but the we couldn't get thru to him on the l http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Umbria/Perugia/blog-323170.html Here are just some other random things that have been going on here in Perugia during the week. I started my actual classes on Wednesday and am finished with the intensive Italian week. Classes seem to be going well other than my ridiculously awful schedule. My classes are later in the day than I would prefer I am used to having class in the morning and being done early in the afternoon but t http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Umbria/Perugia/blog-323012.html On Saturday I had my first trip outside Perugia. I went with about 9 other people to Assisi a town about 25 minutes east of Perugia by train. We left Perugia at 1030am from the Train station. It was really easy to get on the train and go. All we had to do was buy tickets at the electronic booth and then validate them before we got on the train. The train was pretty comfortable and was really http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Umbria/Assisi/blog-320965.html Ok All I have gone around Perugia a bit and taken some pictures that I will Post on here and I also took some videos too They will help you get a better idea of where I am and what it is like here. The last few days I have been in class for the intensive Italian week where we only take Italian class that prepares us for our future course and then there is a getting around town section that http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Umbria/Perugia/blog-320168.html We took a one day bus trip into the Province of Umbria. The highlight was the mountain top town of Civita. The pictures tell part of the story... http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Umbria/blog-319256.html Hello everyone Ok this is day two in Italy but I just moved into my apartment today with my roommate we stayed the first night in a hotel. My flight had two stops so I made a stop in Denver which was ok. The flight across the Atlantic was about 10 hours and I couldn't really sleep so that wasn't really fun. I had a stop in Munich where I missed my next flight and had to wait for the nex http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Umbria/Perugia/blog-318653.html July 9th 2008Meandering our way to Assisi in the heart of Umbria I realized that we would pass Modena...which made me think of Ferrari...which led me to Maranello the home of Ferrari. We stopped in at the museum which was very cool and then swung over by the track and the factory where I managed to snap a couple shots even capturing a highspeed run of the Ferrari around the track. Now http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Umbria/Assisi/blog-314386.html Under the Tuscan Sun....... I understand why this book found it's inspiration here.One cannot help but notice how shadowy the lanes of these villages are. To an outsider it is often daunting odd. But the shadow while staving off the unbelievable heat gives an air of mystique. Of course in medieval times when fortresses walls were erected to keep the residents safe here for example Etruscan http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Umbria/Castiglione-del-Lago/blog-312574.html Good Lawd I'm in HeavenBenvenuto alla terra dei tartufi Welcome to the land of truffles Woooo Black Truffles With my hearts desire I embrace Umbria for all it holds. Have you ever eaten with your eyes closed It is a MustDo in UmbriaA comment about the following photosI'm not religious I'm not one for pomp circumstance. I am however Christian as I feel I would be a http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Umbria/Assisi/blog-311999.html Gerade sitze ich vor dem Headquarter in Sigillo und knpfe an meiner letzten Geschichte an. Das Wetter blieb noch einen weiteren Tag wegen starken Windes unfliegbar. Wir machten einen kleinen Ausflug ins nahe Gubbio ein sehr malerisches mittelalterliches Stdtchen.Am Dienstag war der erste Wettbewerbstag. Wir hatten Nordostwind also wurde vom Startplatz auf der Rckseite des Monte Cucco geflogen http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Umbria/Gubbio/blog-305612.html Die letzten Wochen habe ich mal wieder ordentlich Kilometer abgerissen. Die VorWM in Laragne erscheint schon wieder so weit weg im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes.Wir fuhren zurck nach Hause. Fr mich war dann eine Woche Arbeiten angesagt whrend Monica und Scott zu Bautek nach Trier Drachenhersteller und anschlieend zu Max Wiener nach Traunstein deutscher AirborneHndler fuhren. Ich traf die http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Umbria/Gubbio/blog-302715.html Well the only give away to anybody we meet is the very short hair appearing and how skinny I still am but other than that who would know I had this disease at all. I feel so un believably fit sometimes appearing fitter than the rest of the family as I make them go on walks up and down the Umbrian country side. Is it the sunshine the careful planning of my drug regime or just sheer enthusiasm http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Umbria/blog-302400.html A very lazy Sunday afternoon was spent with Antonello Barbara Federico 6 and Ludavica 4 visiting from Rome. It was relaxed spent around the BBQ the pool and visiting the animals on the farm. The two girls got on very very well exchanging favourite toys as tokens of affection whilst the boys played ball. We have planned little interaction with friends over this trip deciding not to take http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Umbria/blog-302396.html A visit to a huge lake just down from Castiglione del Lago. The guide book had recommended a particular restaurant in town for a local traditional dish of white bean stew and the carp caught in the lake so we headed there for lunch. The town was glorious in what seems to be the usual Umbrain style built ontop of a hill we drove and parked and went straight to eat. We loved the restaurant and http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Umbria/Castiglione-del-Lago/blog-302393.html Heres some pics from Assisi. If you ever plan to go there dont stay more than a day. The town is very beautiful theres just not much to see. http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Umbria/Assisi/blog-301885.html So Bruno our farmer and superequestrian saddled up his horse and cart and took us down the hill and around the village on the horse and cart with ldquoLillierdquo. 900kg of horse which at the end a very eager Jay and slightly apprehensive Asha got on the back and rode a little way. The kids loved the ride Jay still driven by Tractors Trains and Combine Harvesters was on a ride to spot the http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Umbria/blog-301168.html What a bit of luck its Jazz week festival time and we are in town. So after a leisurely morning by our pool we headed into the capital of this region. First stop was for the kids during normal siesta the famous Perrugian chocolate factory that make the ldquoBacirdquo chocolates. Everyone having a love note inside. So we went on a chocolate factory tour sat and listed to a talk about choc http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Umbria/Perugia/blog-301167.html A hillside and we mean hilltop really town in Umbria. A funicular took you to the top of town but we drove right into the centre in front of the cathedral. It was what you would imagine four or five story terracotta bu8ildings narrow lanes people sitting in door ways cobbled streets a cathedral painted from tip to toe with biblical scenes and lots of al fresco dining. Unfortunately we arriv http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Umbria/Orvieto/blog-301166.html 12th July to 22nd July 2008Down from the mountains through the plains of Tuscany and then up to the hills of Umbria. The terracotta roof tiles the olive trees and the endless sun flower fields were incredibly. The temperature seemed perfect at around 28C though was mid 30s on the way down. We arrived at what we can only say was the perfect Italian farm house. It's run by an Architect who traine http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Umbria/blog-301165.html