Perugia 29 August 2017

We left our hotel this morning about 8.45 made our way across to Milan Garibaldi to catch our train to Florence then on to Perugia.  Our train to Florence was a Trenitalia Frecciarossa Very Fast Train.  It started in Turin and went to Rome we caught it in Milan, unlike the others we have encountered there was Sam and I and another business man whose associates boarded at different stations down the line.  Beautiful train and they actually cater for business meetings on the journey, we alighted in Florence and they would have continued on to Rome.  We had an hour wait and then caught a Trenitalia Regional for the journey to Perugia, we did not have to book for this one.  As we have a Eurorail Pass we can always use the first class carriage on the Regional trains.  Each journey was 2 hours when we arrived here we caught a cab to our hotel which is in a building built in the 18^th century.  It would have been a house belonging to one of those influential families who ran the city in those days.  We booked in had lunch in the restaurant which was lovely and then headed out to explore, a delightful place indeed.  We found these buildings under what are now the main regional government buildings, absolutely fascinating, I have a little info but will find out more and elaborate further. 

I am sitting in bed doing this, a few sore bits after my meeting with the road yesterday but very fortunate it was not worse.  It was not so hot today which was very good.  Tomorrow we intend to catch the 10.20 to Assisi and have the day there and then on Thursday we will do some more research and tours of this delightful place.  Sabine and Sam