More on day 3: When we left Pompeii, the train rides were 1000 times better sans the strike and we arrived in Rome within 2 hours...First class! Mackenze hopped on board quickly and when I said "This is 1st class and we are not" she replied "Says who, this looks like us!". So we sat and the delightful train captain smiled and said, "It's okay!".When we reached Roma, we had missed the last train for Perugia, so we took the train to Foglina which was the closet town north to Perugia. Arriving late, we walked across the street to the taxi stand and a man about Mackenzie's age came out of a small restaurant and called the taxi. Alboro was an actor and gave us his facebook page. The taxi driver, who had to get out of bed, took us to our hotel, Via Casale Elvira (for $20 eruo) and the hotel actually was a resort, but for only $60 euro a night since we told the clerk we saw it on Expedia for that price, and the room was spectacular (well in small-town Italy standards!)
Day 4: Breakfast at Casa Velle was included: Procuitto (they eat that here like we eat Bologna in the states), cheese, hard boiled eggs, pastries of all sorts, cappucinos, fruit, etc. Yummy. We left with our packs and hiked 4 miles to the station, but first walked around 'downtown' Foglino. Hopped on the train and headed through beautiful Tuscany, passing Assisi, and then to Perugia, a hilltown between Florence and Roma.
"Should we take the bus up to our hotel, Mackenzie?" I question.
"No, mom, we have our 'Maps Me App' let's walk!" Mackenzie encouragingly replies.
'8 hours later....' (Sponge Bob) we arrive to our hotel. Amazing hike straight up the road and then up 1 million steps and voila, we arrived at Hotel Umbria where Parcha greeted us with "You must be Sandra!" and then said, "I saw you at the train station and we all said what beautiful women, maybe they are coming to our hotel?" But, they did not...he was very disappointed in himself (we hated him)..Just kidding, the hike was fun.
Famished, we sat in the square at a restaurant called, Ferrari, which gave 10% off for our hotel and drank a local beer and shared bruchetta for 2 and fried olives. We walked for about an hour then sat and drank a cappucino overlooking the city below and then headed for the church steps where the town congregates at sunset. Pretty much every person had a beer in one hand and a cigarette in another. What fun people watching. I know a few of my friends (Bev and Ann) who would have loved this moment.
Mackenzie and I talked about Jim and what he would have like here in Perugia. He would have loved everything, especially the food...which brings me to our next meal at La Botteggi dei Priori, a local family restaruant that gave 15% off for Hotel Umbria. A plate of meat and some homemade pasta left us completely satisfied so we headed back to our small, yet quaint room and listened to the sounds of the people of Perugia filter through our ancient wooden shutters.
Thank you, Lord, that we get to just rest tomorrow as we explore Perugia and its Chocolate factory!
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