BK's Travel Blog: Day Trip to Assisi

On 6/7 our group took a day trip to a small town outside of Perugia on a small mountain called Assisi. We all boarded the bus and took the short drive to Assisi. On the way our bus driver stopped and let us take some pictures of Assisi when we were at the base of the small mountain. After a quick photo-op and the drive up the hill we were dropped off near the lower part of town and had to walk up a couple streets to get to the church we were going to attend that morning. We got there a little bit early and had some time to walk around, but eventually we all headed into the church for mass in Italian. The church we went to was called San Francesco d'Assisi and was completely painted in frescos. The mass was nice, though I didn't understand it, but was able to basically follow along. When mass ended we were going to head out to grab some lunch before our guided tour, however it started to downpour extremely hard and we were trapped in the church. It started to let up a bit so we figured we could walk briskly to the nearest restaurant before getting soaked, but as soon as we stepped foot outside it came down harder and we were soaked. After a wet lunch it stopped raining and we all met up for a tour of the city.

We went on the tour and many of us wanted to stop at the many terrances overlooking the city and go in stores along the way and not go on the tour. So we would sort of just stop whenever we wanted and go into places as we pleased, to the dismay of the guide. I loved the cty, it was small perched up on a hill with narrow streets and picturesque views, but our time there was limited.

We headed back to Perugia that evening for dinner in our hotel again. After dinner we headed back out to the town center with Paolo to play cards and drink wine. Paolo showed us a cool little place where if you whispered in one corner you could hear it perfectly on the other side. He also showed us a tower that did the opposite of what you would expect when you got closer and further away. Normally as you get closer to a building it would get bigger and the further you got the smaller, but this tower did the complete opposite and was pretty neat to see. After another packed day we called it a night.