Let me tell you about Italia, Miss O Scoop! I’ve been to Italy 9 times (I’m not kidding). My family owns a small house there, on a hill, which happens to be soooooo bumpy. It’s basically in a town called Tuoro, but my dad says it’s on the border of somewhere.

Next there’re the cool places and stores. There’s a really popular town called Perugia, and if you’ve ever heard if the Umbria Jazz Fest, that’s where it’s held. It has a great silk shop called Fatto A Mano, and it has millions of colors of bags and purses and clothes and shoes and scarves and shawls AND MORE!! It also has a great owner who speaks English. In Perugia is a small jewelry shop that’s just GREAT. The owner speaks English. In 2005, there was a small candy store called Sweet Sweet Way. Now it’s moved, but it’s still in Perugia, and it’s bigger and better and has Gelato. (Gelato is ice cream, just better!) Then there’s a bakery called Sandri’s which is really great.

The next town is Cortona. It has a great shop with little glittery boxes and little silk frogs and pens. It ALSO had an AWESOME hoodie... :( which I didn’t buy. Wish I had.

There’s also a pizzeria and there’s a playground next to it. Speaking of playgrounds, there’s another one in Cortona... believe me, the bathroom is CREEPY! You want to know why? Because you pay two euro’s to get in, and then the door is like steel, right? So, you go in, and the door like locks on you and it’s this tiny cubicle with a steel door and walls and when you press a button on the door the toilet flushes and the door opens. It is soooo creepy!

And next up is the city (town) Deruta. I call it the Land of Pottery. I mean, every store has a ton of pottery in it. In fact, in one of them, there’s a man who owns it and he made all of them in his store. He speaks some English, and he plays guitar... but two of his guitars are completely made of ceramics!!! They’re so cool... and he painted them himself... they’re so awesome; they’re not even for sale!! If they where, I bet he could make a couple million dollars... Deruta’s pretty awesome.

More about Tuoro... Well, you see, it has this festival every summer called Festa Del Torro. Torro means bull. At the Festa, there’s an awesome ride which is a huge... cylinder... with a lot of swings on it and it goes around, fast and high, and you try to grab this thingy and if you do you get like two free turns on it. It’s cool.

There’s this awesome restaurant called the Ciao Ciao... it has great food, great pizza, great gelato, a cool arcade, trampolines, racecars, bumper boats, and balls. It is soooo awesome! That’s about it. Wait, there’s one more city. Passignano. It’s on the lake. It’s totally a tourist town. Everyone speaks English, but it’s fun.

Basically, I heart Italia! Italy rox!!