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Also in Umbria, with a morose, I spent an alternative New Year’s Eve on the road, if only because I dumped her the next day.

The cities of Umbria

In Perugia, I really like the entrance to the historic center with the escalators that go through the Rocca Paolina, and with all the history and the vicissitudes that are in there that testify how bad even the popes were when they were dictators.

But in general I’ve been really many times in Umbria appreciating especially the small villages, in no particular order:

• Spoleto
• Spello
• Foligno
• Orvieto
• City of Castello
• Todi
• Assisi

Beautiful is the walk from Santa Maria degli Angeli up to Assisi, which can be done even at night because it is a well-lit pedestrian street (featured photo). Going there mostly in winter or at any rate out of season, with few people, I feel myself going back centuries; several times I imagined crossing behind an alley St. Francis or some medieval gentleman.

Ditching the morose becomes an alternative New Year’s Eve on the road

With a sweetheart of a couple of months, we had planned a 3-day jaunt. It involved mostly city and town visits, and dinner on the 31st was all about pastries on a bench in Perugia. Both because we didn’t like big dinners, to save money, and for something different from the usual.

Too bad that on the evening of January 1 I broke up with her, and on the 2nd (at her insistence) we visited Gubbio with her in tears the whole time, and it was not pleasant. Things were not going the way I had wanted for a while, but she evidently saw it differently.

I thought I would evaluate that little vacation and then decide. But at dinner we got into a complicated talk, which led to a yes-or-no question from her, and it was no. I would say it was very alternative for her as well, and even years later I sometimes think about my indelicacy at the time that she didn’t deserve at all.

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Fabio Viroli

Ho sempre avuto tante passioni, ma da sempre più o meno latenti, le principali sono viaggiare e scrivere. Tra le altre cose ho una laurea in psicologia; ho fatto per più di 30 anni l’allenatore di basket; leggo tanti libri; sono stato molto appassionato di sport e di musica rock; e faccio improvvisazione teatrale

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