We drove to Perugia Wednesday where we were going to stay with a friend who moved to Italy about 20 years ago. We drove through the extensive and packed city out into the farm area around it to stay with them until we all left for Amalfi on Saturday. Thursday we made a day of it and went back in to the city to get a nice long tour of the place. We saw a lot of things by Perugino (an artist nick-named after the city he painted the most in) and his school of apprentices but we didn't get to take any pictures of those things. We also went into the church and saw stained glass windows that are designed to look more like paintings with light shining through than your typical stained glass windows. Afterwards we went into an old, deep, etruscan built well which I would not recommend you do if you are at all claustrophobic. You could just feel the ancientness of the place and the walls were still dripping down moisture and it was literally thousands of years old. Took pictures here but it was so dark none of them came out. So aside from various streets I didn't get many pictures of Perugia except for this AWESOME gelato place that made awesome designs out of their ice cream and was still relatively cheap. I got a pinnochio and here's what showed up. They also have a design that looks like spaghetti but none of us got that one :(
On the way back we stopped by at the church our friend got married at. I think this was the tower to it.
On Friday we headed to Assisi which is obviously very religious oriented.
Aside from seeing various monks and nuns wandering around (even stores that sold habits and elaborate priest garments) there were many many tourist shops that we wandered through. Including ones that played up the religous theme for those of us less reverent of such things. So we get hand painted ceramics like this.
After Assisi we went to a restaurant near by and rested up for our trip to Naples the next day.
Oh and I got about 20 bug bites in Perugia so that make sure you bring your bug spray if you go. They'll ignore it but at least you'll feel like you did everything you could
OHHHHH and I blacked this out but there are also a lot of crickets here so don't leave your windows open or else you'll get to do what gramma and I did where we had to chase three out and then in the process of getting them safely out of our room we let in a HUMONGOUS bee that wouldn't leave. That one got smashed. Sorry he wouldn't leave and its not like we could ignore him make a helicopter's level of buzzing around our heads.
adafk;jga shiver shiver. I hate bugs, especially ones that fly.
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