http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Umbria/Perugia/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Europe , Italy , Umbria , Perugia en-us Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:57:16 +0000 Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:57:16 +0000 Beautiful Perugia this is a short album of pictures from my 1 month stay in Perugia. I moved here with my friend Andy after we finished our Teaching Certification course in Florence to spend the month searching for jobs and doing interviews. Perugia is one of the most beautiful historic and culturally dense places I have ever been in my life. It is a little Medieval University town in the m http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Umbria/Perugia/blog-442330.html Motorhome News from Europe 19.Italy March 2005 Amalfi snowchains and Assisi Capri is everything you could possibly ask for. Take away the tourists and you are left with the most wonderful and romantic destination imaginable. Itrsquos just half an hour by ferry from Sorrento rising steeply from the Med on the edge of the Bay of Naples. It was busy at the portside in the summer they expect arou http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Umbria/Perugia/blog-432714.html Sempre fui apaixonada por aqueles cabeles vermelhos cheios de drads o rubi no dente que eu tinha vontade de imitar e a voz soul melody do exDJ de Manchester Mick Hucknall. Conheci Mr. Pumpkinhead em 2000 numa festa ap8057s o show no Credicard Hall de So Paulo esticada depois para a cobertura do Hotel Transamrica. O resto da banda que chamam Simply Red mudou vrias vezes de formao http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Umbria/Perugia/blog-422722.html July 9thI desided not to take up the girl from the conferences offer to take me down to Spolleto and the coast line. As much as it was tempting and I may even regret it later I really wanted to forge my own ground and discover Italy on my own terms. For better or worse this is my trip my way.Perugia has vary little tourism compared to other cities Ive been to in Italy. This is great because I get http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Umbria/Perugia/blog-417248.html Perugia onde tudo comeou... para mim. Tenho um imenso carinho por esta cidade por um motivo muito especial e tambm belas recordaes. Lembro com saudades da minha amiga alem Katrin e o nosso cineminha no parque aos domingos onde assistamos o show das estrelas cadentes atrz da tela ao invs do filme. Dos amigos pelas cantinas de cozinha tpica com toalhas quadriculadas e vinho barato. Do c http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Umbria/Perugia/blog-399143.html We caught the over night ferry from Barcelona to Livorno. After a night we went to a beautiful countryside house near Chuisi http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Umbria/Perugia/blog-397914.html Buongiorno tuttiHere commences the blog. In english although I would recommend that you instead learn italian to truly appreciate the poetry of the italian language sarcasm is difficult with only a keyboard I guess that's why there isn't really any sarcastic musicA recount of my weekend on Friday there was a public holiday they are neverending in Italy work is not as important as in othe http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Umbria/Perugia/blog-396223.html So we woke up early in Assisi and spent about an hour on the bus before up in Perugia. We started the tour off by walking through this so called via street. It was a fortress used by the pope AGAINST the people of Perugia. As the story goes the church wanted to tax the people of Italy and the people of Perugia wanted none of it. They stood up against the church. After the pope sent an army http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Umbria/Perugia/blog-371347.html Thanksgiving was a pretty big deal to most of the American students that were spending the holiday in Perugia. We all tried to make the most of it by cooking a large dinner. For many of us this was our first big holiday away from our families so everyone called home and tried to track down their favorite recipes to make the holiday special. Finding the recipes was not the problem but finding t http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Umbria/Perugia/blog-364732.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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Waking up superearly to catch the late train got us into Perugia much later than expected and left us Fabioless He returned to Ferrara to study and to work but after resting up at the hotel we make it into Perugia just in time to get a nice aperitivo overlooking a beautiful Umbrian landscape... followed by a delicious dinner that we just so happened to stumble on... the pictures tell it all http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Umbria/Perugia/blog-296579.html