Travelogues Umbria

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If you set aside heavily trafficked roads and unsightly commercial areas, and don't let fierce gusts and rain dampen your spirits, you will enjoy the route between Foligno and...

After spending two months in Sardinia, we have now traveled to Assisi in Umbria. We are here for three weeks at an English language school camp, helping with the preparations for...

Perugia and Assisi

One should dedicate several days to the town of Spoleto, as there are so many treasures here to discover. However, it’s advisable to plan your visit before you develop any joint...

Today's weather report: heavy rain, strong wind gusts, and thick fog. But at least: it’s not cold. I lacked the motivation for the mountain hike on Monte Subasio under these...

Yesterday was travel day. We said goodbye to the AirBnB house, left the key under the doormat and were away by 7.30am. Not much to note except the journey, that was pegged as 3.5...

It had rained heavily during the night, so the morning was cool, cloudy, but dry. We set off again to descend back down to Spoleto via the same steep path we had already...

I leave the Romita, I did not accept the invitation to stay. My theme is hiking, even though I really enjoyed the time spent in this group. There were some excellent singers and...

Today it will be mundane again, because we are going out into nature and up Monte Subasio. The ideal hike for me, which was shaped in an alpine region: The path goes up here...

Staying awake for the purple clouds

Anyone who comes to Assisi should try to get a guided tour from the German brother Thoms Freidel PFM Conv. Not only can he give excellent information about the cultural...

The path from Valfabbrica to Assisi is easy to walk and very varied. In the first few kilometers, the landscape is similar to that of the last few days. Suddenly the landscape...

Rarely have we seen so few people or just vehicles on such a stage. The route was long, beautiful, and very exhausting. Initially, we went through...

San Pietro in a village just before Perugia

As beautiful as Lake Garda is, we had to move on - to be precise: I had to move on. Karl-Heinz had 100 days to find some sun somewhere and was kind enough to want to accompany...

Why dogs bark all night long is a mystery to me, but here they do. Fortunately, I have figured out how to put these earplugs in my ears so that they don't fall out right away......

We did it. We covered almost 300 km in the last few days, met lots of nice people and had a wonderful time. At this point I can only thank Nobby, who provided the impetus for...

There are people who have such an incredibly positive aura - good vibrations - that you can't help but be infected by their zest for life. I met one such person today: Walter....

Today, the first day without traffic jams. Hard to believe... Short gelato break in Touro at Lake Trasimeno, where the Italians still ride horses to eat ice cream. Lake...

After the philosophical-sociological discussions last night with Jan, the Dutch theologian - in search of a synthesis between modern individualism and being embedded in a...

Today was church day, it's all jumbled up in my head. My sports car took me to Assisi without any problems, a drive of about 1.5 hours. I found a good parking spot and made my...