Today we planned to spend seeing the sights of Perugia with hopefully more sun and less wind. The day started with the delicious breakfast at the hotel. Then Margaret, Clark and I began our wandering while everyone else had to go back up to their rooms to get ready.

The sun was out so we went back to the overlook to take some pictures. We also found a second terrace to look out over the other side of town. It was still a little windy but not too bad.

There was some kind of festival or small market with a few vendors out in tents selling painted pottery. Surprisingly I didn’t buy anything but Margaret and I did find some jewelry to buy. In Perugia they hand paint clay beads and we both bought a few of them. I bought one last time and was happy to add to my collection.

Kelle joined us and we headed to the chocolate museum. It was actually much better than I expected. It was mostly the chocolate origin story with information about the development of different types of chocolate. It was a lot of reading but was interesting and they gave you chocolate. The display was around the outer edge with the middle being a replica of coco plants with a slide for the kids. There was a group of boys that just kept running back to slide again. Not sure what that had to do with chocolate but it kept the kids entertained.

After the museum we met back up with Jeff and had a Prosecco on the terrace overlooking the city.

Sadly the wind picked back up and we decided to go to the Umbria museum to get out of it. The Umbria museum is full of 1200 – 1500 religious art. Probably only religious art during those centuries and even that is mostly Mary and full grown manchild baby Jesus’. They seemed to get better for a while and then return to weird babies again. They are also full of cherubs with just wings for bodies. After a while they all seemed to look alike. I did like the prevalent use of pink in some of the paintings.

We popped into the church after the museum. It clearly had lost its stained glass as some point because most of it was modern. It did have some nice needlework which I assume was either an alter cloth or just decoration some point in the last 100/200 years. They were setting up a scene for Good Friday and carried a statute of Jesus through the church on a table covered with a blanket. Like somehow it would be wrong to see them just carry the statute to the right chapel. They carried him on the table took him off laid him on the floor recovered him took out other red cloths covered the table then picked up the Jesus statute and covered him again. It was quite the production and drew a pretty good size crowd.

The sun came back out and the wind died down so we decided to take advantage of the hotel terrace and have some wine and snacks. We had a lovely view and a lovely spread to tie us over until dinner.

We had reservations at a nice restaurant for dinner so no pizza tonight. It was a lovely place that gave you a Prosecco when you first sat down and a little bite of lentil soup just to get you started. We were sitting near the door and Margaret’s Italian crush came in. He is an Instagram guy who owns/works in a men’s clothing store in Perugia. His store is very fancy and his posts are over the top. Margaret was very excited and was debating going to talk to him.

The chef came by to talk to us and had a connection to Texas so stayed at the table for quite a while. Turns out his first job was a place in Midland during the 70s oil boom. After he left our table he went to the table Margaret’s man was sitting at and stayed with them for a really long time. On his way back to the kitchen he stopped to see if we had enjoyed our food and Margaret asked about the Instagram guy so faye asked the chef if he would help her get a phot with him and he agreed. Even said he would introduce Margaret has his new American girlfriend. It caused quite a stir but Margaret was in heaven.

The food was delicious and we had a great evening. I will hate to leave Perugia in the morning but it is time to move on. It was a good stay even with the cold and windy days.