Albergo Il Borghetto Montepulciano

... I have to walk across town to get to class now. One good thing that came out of this, however, is that because we were so close to her apartment she decided to invite the entire class over for a tea party after class today. Not sure why or how she came up with this idea, but I thought it was really cute.

This was the first genuine Italian apartment inhabited by genuine Italians that I ...

... villes de la region, orvieto est construite sur une coline et Emilie la gentillement rebatise orvieto "la vile sur une bosse". C'est une petite ville encore fortifier, construite sur une tres ancienne ville creuse a meme la coline. il y a une grosse cathedrale (duomo) comme toutes les villes que nous avons vue, puis il y a plusieur point de vue sur la region.

en fin de journee, nous avons visiter quelques unes ...

... and tiny, weaving streets that are closed to traffic (the first European city to banish vehicles from its center, in 1966).

We started our tour of Siena by walking through town and coming across the Piazza Salimbeni, which contains the interesting Palazzo Spannocchi, a Gothic building from which 29 finely carved busts stare down at you from under the palazzo’s eaves! Pretty cool.

We continued walking through interesting ...

... paysage est tres beau, comme dans toute la toscane!!

dans les attraction principale , il y avais le duomo, quelque eglies plus modestes, mais chacune avais un petit quelque chose a voir. puis il y a les ruines d'une anciene arena romaine.

un autre jour, une autre destination! Aujourd'hui, nous somme parties pour Siene. Arrive a siene, nous avons traverse la ville pour y trouver un bureau d'information touristique. une fois la carte de la vile en main, nous somme aller dinner dans un resto, un peu a l'ecart des sites touristiques. Comme dans tout les restorant italien, il y ...

... life time on this trip already!
Climbed the tower in the main piazza, saw an enormously large pizza and had wild boar sausages for lunch which were a bit gamey but nice.
Went for drinks at Lochness bar and ended up drinking long islands as there wasn't much in the way of wine or beer there.

... This town goes to show that the charm of these towns can overcome guidebooks and tour busses. Much less visited are the cities and towns of Umbria. As these are just across the border one must surmise that their lack of tourist hordes comes mainly from the fact that they are not "Tuscan" than from any logistical reasons. The fact that they are not Tuscan actually was a benefit as one can immediately feel subtle differences from their neighbors just to the ...

... shop in town. At 1:30 it was closed so we continue into town to check out some shops and a few of the sights around town.

On the way we found the piazza Campo and the tower there. We also saw a few churches. We stumbled upon a photo shop that had a replacement battery for my camera. After additional exploration we made it back to the bike shop. We went inside to find an old shop with not allot of merchandise. We were looking for a water bottle for Kathie and a souvenir ...

Ho programmato un giro che mi porterà in giro per la val d'Orcia. Stasera dormo di nuovo a Scrofiano, quindi parto senza le borse. Oggi mi aspetta un percorso difficile con parecchi saliscendi impegnativi.Parto molto presto e trovo molta nebbia. Attraverso Sinalunga, Torrita e mi avvio verso Montepulciano. Arrivo ad un bivio: a destra mancano 7.5 chilometri a Montepulciano a sinistra 12,5 Scelgo la destra, consapevole ...

Hello Everyone! We are currently back on the coach heading out of Lauterbrunnen Switzerland heading for Leitchenstien. So, alot has happened since our last update from Belgium. We spent a night in Heidelberg Germany. This university town is truly gorgeous. The Neckar River seperates the downtown area from the residences. The houses are all built into the side of the river vally and all are so brightly coloured! Paul ...