Italy trip part the last: Rome and Perugia

[sienamystic]

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[stephanieburgis]

I love these posts! And now I want to go to Rome one day.

[sienamystic]

It's pretty great. I don't know if it's my favorite city in Italy but it's close.

[sonetka]

I really want to own a house with doors and windows like those. Think of the Halloween possibilities! The Chocolate Festival sounds lovely although I'd probably feel slightly nervous about catching the eye of a Satanism-obsessed prosecutor while browsing the selections.

[sienamystic]

I know, it's so hard to find a house with all the good and necessary finishing touches, like monster faces on all the doors and windows.

Ack, poor Perugia. I fell in love with the town because in 1998 I went to Italy for the first time and did a summer session at the Universita per Straneri, so all my first memories of falling in love with Italy are set in Perugia. All the stuff that happened there made me so sad. I wrote something about it a while back, where I lamented the state of the Italian judicial system, but since then I know I sometimes get the same sensation about the American judicial system. Sigh.

[sonetka]

They both have their own uniquely awful ways of being messed up, it seems! And I'm sure that the average Perugian isn't exactly thrilled to have that case be The Face Of Study Abroad In Perugia for a lot of people. (I had never heard of the case until late 2009 when I moved to Seattle and the first verdict was about to be handed down, and my first thought on reading coverage was "Well, if the DNA is there, it's there, but why are they making all those guesses about what she said?" Read more and more and it just got weirder and less likely at every turn. God knows we have our own demented prosecutors, though. They just have different fixations).