Tonight we fly to Dublin and are looking forward to spending the last few days of our trip in an English speaking country that is very familiar to us. Dublin, then New York, then home on Wednesday. Whew!
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Our host was fucking weird. She was like, "I'll be down on the beach and if you can't find me there just ask around town - everyone knows me". I was like.....the fuck? Fuck you. Come and check us in, bitch. You want us to walk around town with our luggage, in a city we're unfamiliar with full of people who speak a language that we don't and fucking "ask around"?
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Soon after it started to get super hot and we started to lose our spunk. The streets were tiny and packed solid with other dumbass tourists. We walked around as best we could, but it was quickly becoming miserable.
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Would I come back to Perugia to visit for a couple of days? Fuck yes. Would I recommend visiting? Absolutely! Would I come back here for any extended period of time? Hell to the no.
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And of course all the ingredients that are super expensive to import in the U.S. are dirt cheap and totally normal here. Like this gigantic hunk of truffle we got for FOUR DOLLARS:
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For the first few days we were sort of walking around like zombies - as I'm sure most would feel having "moved" to a city you'd never been to, to occupy an apartment you'd never seen before. We were just getting the lay of the land. Who has the best coffee. Who has the cheapest cup of decent tea. The freshest pastries. The best dinner deal. Where are the free wifi spots. The good gelato.
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All five towns are connected by hiking trails so it’s a popular spot for backpackers. We weren’t that ambitious, but we hiked up pretty far. People’s houses are just scattered along the way so it’s funny as you’re hiking further and further you end up looking down into the town, but also into people’s backyards:
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On the bus driving through Rome:
Katie: Where do you think the bus is going to drop us?
Kris: The fuck off.
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Later that night Margherita asked if I had any English movies on my laptop. The only one I had was Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Haha. She has never watched an English movie without subtitles, but she wanted to try. It was really fun to explain stuff she didn't understand - like the joke about going from six to midnight. Ha.
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I made my way to this sandwich shop Margherita recommended - Gusto Panino. She really knows her shit because it was the best sandwich ever. I had tomatoes and mozzarella and pesto on focaccia. The focaccia was so fresh and it was perfectly crispy on the outside and soft on the inside.
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Paolo told us that many of his olive trees are 1,100 years old. Can you imagine? A thousand year old tree? He also said this land used to be cared for by benedictine monks. And that most of Tuscany used to be olive groves, but they tore out a bunch of the olive trees to plant grains thinking that would be more profitable. But then they really regretted that later.
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I asked him what the fucking big deal was with sweet tea - was it just tea that was sweetened? I swear you'd think I told him I just fucked his mother. He took a few deep inhales and started describing brewing the tea and then pouring in a bunch of sugar while the water is still very hot. And then filling it up the rest of the way with cold water. But he's describing it in a very detailed way. I cut him off and said again "So, it's just tea that's been sweetened?" I mean really it is just tea that has been sweetened. That cracks me up.
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