Drove to Perugia .... wow
i ran out of camera battery very quickly - about 15 minutes into the walk and didnt have my spare with me. it was a magnificent place; i had managed to get a few photos of that sense of place and just soaked in the atmosphere while walking around.
THe first two pictures that show a dark cavernous type of crypt is the original roman buildings that have been retained and are the walkway through to the train station and the main piazza - its huge and has many offshoot corridors filled with roman artifacts like the horses head in the third pic.
It was hot with lots of people everywhere, eating, sitting around the fountain, an accordian player dressed in old trakkie pants and a long sleeved tee shirt, beautiful clothes on tanned bodies and a lot of dogs on leads. The buildings were magnificent, ancient, enormous structures that surround the piazza with lower floors now being shops like 'Colours of Bennetton', shoe shops and smaller retail shops and restaurants.
Lunch was at one of the outdoor restaurants with good old fashioned style home cooking. Cherie had chicken and vegetables, Jon had pasta and vegetables and I had a pork and potato dish which looked like my mum's porkolt and was just as tasty.
Later, post Italy, in assessing the places we visited Perugia was my favourite.
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