Heading to Perugia

On our sixth day of the trip we were to leave Rome and head to Perugia. However, our first stop was at a hospital on the outskirts of Rome. This was our first visit to a hospital in Italy and our first school related event. We toured the hospital and learned some things about pharmacy in Italy that was pretty outrageous, at least to us and what we are use to in the States. For example, pharmacists in Italy have no patient records, nor do they keep any themselves, and they basically just fill what the doctor says and if there is an interaction between medications the pharmacist would have no idea.

After our first hospital visit we headed out to Perugia on our little tour bus to our nicest hotel during our stay in Italy. We dumped our luggage in the hotel and got changed for a quick tour around the city. We followed our tour guide Isabella around the city as she pointed out some Etruscan artifacts along the way, but nothing really stands out in my mind because most of it was just 0ld bricks or an arch here and there. But this ancient civilization was very crucial to the Roman civilization. What I found most interesting was that we had to take like 4 escalators that ended in an old castle basement in order to get to the center of town from our hotel. After our quick tour we were given some free time before dinner to shop around the main street. I stopped in Perugina, along with mostly everyone else, to buy some chocolate. Along the way our ran into a Professor from the University of Perugia,Paolo, who said he could meet up with us after dinner to show us around Perugia.

After shopping for about a half hour we headed back to the hotel for some dinner. After dinner we went up to the lobby to find Paolo waiting for us to take us out in the city. Little did we know that that night would be probably one of the longest, but funnest nights on the trip. Paolo took us to a bar and told us no one is out yet and that we can hang out here until midnight and then head out to the town center. At midnight he took us up to the town center and there were people all over the place. From here he took us to some cool terrances to look over the city and proceeded to take us to two more bars. By this time it was close to 3 in the morning and we headed back to the town center where it was more crowded than it was at midnight, we could hardly move to get through the street. We stopped to grab some kebabs on the way back to silence our hunger and they were extremely good and whenever we were hungry at night again we always wanted kebabs but could never find any places to get them after we left Perugia. I believe we called it a night closer to 4 in the morning and the next day we had to get up to travel to Assissi. Below are some pictures:

The basement of the castle after the escalators

The main street in Perugia (town center)


Side street in Perugia

Etruscan arch

Streets of Perugia at 3 am.