Elly and I stayed up a bit late on Wednesday night. We still woke up pretty early Thursday morning and had breakfast in the hotel breakfast room. After eating we both agreed that we were still pretty tired and went back to bed for a couple more hours. I love vacation!
Our quest for the day was to find, in Elly's words, "the cool street". She was awfully mysterious about it, so I'm not sure what we were actually looking for. She was attempting to use Google Maps on her phone to pick out a path, but it just doesn't work like that out here. There are streets on the map that don't exist in real life, or if they do they are possibly underground streets that we were not able to find. We attempted to pick out a path to "the cool street" and wound up just orbiting it for awhile.
At one point, we ran into a mass of school kids and their school. The via we were following dead-ended in a school yard. According to the map it kept going through, but we both felt like we were intruding, so we backed out and took another path. I should have snapped off some photos, but didn't think about it until later.
Up and down Perugian vias. We saw some new sights (new to me, anyway) but never found "the cool street". We're going to try again today. Among the new sights we saw was an awesome, tree-covered via, and Via Appia, a street criss-crossed with bridges and arches.
Another thing we came across that day: the cathedral piazza had a stage and tent set up for a concert of some kind. Live, Italian pop music played from there starting during pausa and continuing through that night. With our windows open we could hear the music all the way back at the hotel.
We had another awesome lunch. Every single restaurant we've been to here has been WORLDS better than American Italian food. Fairly cheap, too. Most restaurants have a deal where you can get prima e secondi e contorni (side dish, such as a salad or potatoes) e acqua e caffè e coperto (cover charge, basially the tip) for ~12-16 euros. That's basically $20 US. A burger, fries, and a latte in Denver can easily run $16-20 after tip, and the meals you get here are much better.
Elly's MS fatigue caught up with us today, so we had to take it pretty chill that afternoon/evening. Elly wasn't feeling up to leaving the room so I got to go on an adventure where I bought bottled water and gelato without her assistance.
Today we're going to take it pretty easy, Elly is still pretty fatigued. We're going to head out and try to find "the cool street" again.
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