Castello Banfi - Il Borgo
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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*). ...
Wedding Day
We drove to the villa a few days ago and have been settling in here getting ready for the wedding and meeting the other guests coming for the wedding. Ryan and Bick (my nephew and his new wife), have friends from all over. Ryan and Bick work in England and Bick's parents are from Malaysia, so was a very multicultural affair.
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Tuscany!
... Maria), and Dymph's husband Mick. We had a good look around at Florence. We saw the open air museum with the sculptures spotted here and there, the ancient leather market and the Accademia where Michaelangelo's statue of David is on display. The statue is pretty awesome!
Then we catch the train to Siena and to the hotel where we are staying for the next few ...
Tuscany Baby
... I warned the others to look out for the “spitting babies” but they never made it to the chapel, and then doubted the existence of the image, no matter how vividly I had painted it. (I must be better in writing.)
In Sansapolcro we were a day behind the visiting Pope. I don’t think he had any better a time than we. We visited the museum that housed the reported “most beautiful painting in the world” according to Aldous Huxley. The ...
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