Residenza San Domenico Siena
Via della Sapienza 39 Siena, Tuscany, 53100, Italy
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A drive in the Tuscan countryside
Poppiano is a small community close to our villa.
There is a very large castle, where people live.
It is a wine making community. There are solar panels on the hillside and the wine making vats are very well hidden so as to not disrupt the beautiful landscape.
We went into Empoli for gelatto and cookies from a very nice bakery.
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From Rome to Florence to Tuscany!
... As frustrating as it is to be without internet, it is actually kind of nice to "power down" and take things slow.
My mom has our phone number at the Villa if anyone needs us.
I'm trying to go on Facebook quickly when I'm in a bigger centre to update where we are so that you know that we are still alive :)
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Cooking School of Siena di Lella Cesari Ciampoli
... with our help. A pasta dish with a sauce where our group learned to roll noodles, a peasant soup which used Italian bread and tomatoes and lots or garlic and basil, skewers of meat that included pork cubes and sausages as well as a tiramisu dessert.
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What An Afternoon
So we enjoyed Florence and were happy to have had the opportunity to visit but it is not really fair to compare it to how much fun we had with the remainder of our day, we left Florence at around 1:30 and without too much trouble got back out of town. We headed towards Siena which is the main large community in the Tuscany region famous around the world for their massive amounts of vineyards. In fact one thing we did in Siena was stopped into a place who had Italian wines ...
The Siena Incident
... s vacation photos. We walked to the Piazza del Campo, which is where they have insane horse races twice a year in July and August, which are characterized by numerous horses dying in falls. Luckily, we visited in the middle of January, and no horses were to be seen, just a huge plaza with numerous restaurants and shops along the edges.
After taking in the view of the plaza, we wandered into a gelatto shop. I had ...


