Sadly our stay in Florence has come to an end. I am excited about moving on to Perugia but I always hate to leave Florence. It is one of my favorite places and even though I know I will be back it is hard to pack up and go.

The apartment has been amazing. it was a bit of a splurge but in my opinion well worth it. It is not everyday you have your wine sitting on a couch checking out 1637 frescos. Hopefully are other two Airbnbs will be as nice. They won’t have the frescos but hopefully the ocean view will but equally as fascinating.

But first train to Perugia where we are staying in a hotel. The train station is not horribly far from the apartment but no one other than Jeff wants to lug our suitcases through the city so we ordered cabs. The other night it took forever for us to get cabs this morning they pulled right up so we got to the train station super early and we had to stand around and wait about an hour. When they finally gave our train a platform number it seemed like everyone there was headed out in our direction. Somehow we got separated and Faye, Bob and I went one way to get out of the crowd and everyone stayed in the mix of it. We found plenty of seats in our car but I think they weee a little crammed. Wasn’t a long ride so not a big deal.

It was cold and wet when we arrived in Perugia so we caught a cab up to the hotel. Perugia is a lovely hilltop town. Which I loved on my first visit several years ago. I remembered a funicular from my last trip and either dreamed that or they have taken it out. They had something called the mini train which might be it but it seemed different.

Our rooms were all ready so we dropped off our bags and headed out for lunch, snacks or whatever you have at 3:30 when you haven’t really eaten all day. Most places were either closed for their mid afternoon break or didn’t have seats. We finally found something. It wasn’t very Italian looking but turned out they had a full bar and the food was fine. We also got to watch two old Italians play cards which was entertaining.

Having been fortified we tried to walk around but it was super cold and everyone gave up. Except me I made it a bit longer just wandering the back streets. I caught the tail end of a kids Easter performance before heading in myself.

We decided on pizza for dinner since we were all tired and it was cold and wet and the pizza place was close. Turns out it was a good choice the pizza was delicious. They had probably 30 options with all sorts of toppings. I had sausage and truffles. Margaret had pumpkin, blue cheese and ham hers was way more interesting than mine and I was a bit jealous.

It was too cold to do anything but come back to the hotel so a relatively early night in Perugia. Tomorrow we are heading off to Assisi so hopefully the sun will come out.