We had breakfast at the hotel, which was a large buffet with juices, honeys, fruits, pastries, cereal, etc. We had fresh a fruit salad with granola and really good local honey on top.

After breakfast we drove to Perugia, which is a pretty large industrial city, and had a hard time finding a parking lot. The city has escalators to get you to the top, which is on a large hill. At the top there seemed to be lot of graffiti and closed shops, giving the place a rundown feeling. We saw a church completely covered for restoration and had to climb many more steps to get up further. The path opened onto a small piazza. We walked a little further and saw the big piazza, Piazza del Duomo, which had a large fountain. It was nice but not much compared to the other things we saw this trip.

We went to the Galleria National Museum which had an exhibit on Perugino, the most famoius Umbrian artist. Perugino’s art is very colorful and three dimensional, almost like a comic book. We both enjoyed the exhibit a lot. The rest of the museum was mostly altar pieces, which was boring. We walked around some more and decided we didn’t like Perugia that much, so we left.

We went back to the hotel and laid by the pool for a while, relaxing. Then we relaxed some more in the room and patio. This was probably the most relaxing day of the vacation.

We walked to a local restaurant, Osteria Siro, for dinner. The place was very busy, but the food was good. At one point, I accidently knocked my red wine over and splashed it all over the back of a man sitting next to us. It was all over his white shirt. We apologized but he didn’t seem to mind too much. The food we had was cheese with pear and honey, pastas with mushroom, chicken with butter, and veal.

We went back to the hotel and watched an episode of an Italian show called Un Medico In Famiglia, about a family with a son who is a doctor. Since it was Italian, we made up our own story lines and had a blast. If you haven’t tried something like this I would recommend it.