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Authentic Tuscany
Marisablomerus stayed here on Jun 9, 2011 during their trip titled: Marisablomerus' Great Adventure.
An afternoon of olives
... the net to gather the olives all in one spot, Dump the olives into a bucket, then into a burlap bag, and heave the bag over your shoulder and carry it up the hill. Nothing to it! We breaked for lunch. I ate the biggest plate of pasta in my life! Spaghetti with homemade tomato sauce, made with homegrown tomatoes. Delizioso! Also fresh formaggio (pecorino) and red wine. Then back to work until 4pm or so. It's fun so ...
Io Arrivo!
... speak little of Italian. So it leads to short sentence conversations that are lots of fun and definitely sincere on both our parts. Actually I do remembr some of the words I learned, and being "forced" to speak it is the best way for me to learn. That's it for now. Off to walk up the hill to Lisa & Helena's to harvest olives! Having grande tempo! Ciao! ...
Siena
The day was rainy and quite cold but definitely didn't ruin my plans. Today I spent the day in Siena, another semi walled commune. This is a place that you could just wander up and down its streets for hours, which I did. I think I took in a good mix of old and new here. As lunch hour was approaching I aimlessly wandered looking for a place to have a bite and stumbled upon a university with super cheap ...
The Italian Version of San Francisco
... beauty of these places and I know my memory will eventually fail me; therefore, a photo is the only solution.
The most memorable part of Siena in my opinion was the Duomo. It was....incredible. The inside blew my mind. The outside had amazing sculptures with incredible detail. (*I have yet to see the inside of the Duomo in Florence so I can't compare- however, the outside of the Italian Duomo is still amazingly beautiful*). ...
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