Diana Park Hotel Siena

nous sommes rester a florence pour terminer notre visite la ville en allant aux jardins boboli et bardini, situe dans la cours du palais pitti. Deux grand jardins qui a cette date n'ont plus autant a offrir qu'en ete. il n'y a plus de fleur, et la moitie des arbres n;ont plus de feuille, mais on a pu constater l'ampleur de la propriete en passant tout l'apres midi a ...

... swimming in the current and playing riverside. (Either they were beavers or they were the largest rats I have ever seen. I shudder to think…)

We kept up our walk toward Florence’s historic city center, finally making it to Ponte Vecchio – a beautiful and unique 14th-century bridge that is less like a bridge and more like a shopping plaza built over the water! Out of all the bridges in Florence – and there are a lot ...

Apres une heure de bus dans un paysage montagneux remplis de vignoble et de plantattion d'olivier, nous somme arrive a "Greve in chianti" en toscane. Malheureusement pour nous, la saisons des visites de vignobles est terminee. Nous avons quand meme marche jusqu'au chateau montefioralle. Une fois en haut de la cote, on avait une belle vue sur les environs et puis apres avoir marcher au travers du chateau, nous avonas repris la route du village ...

partie de pise pour se rendre a Florence en toscane. On s'approche tranquillement de la region de Chianti ! Encore uen ville magnifique ou l'on ne peut pratiquement rien prendre en phtoto tellement les rues sont etroites. Le duomo, le 3e plus haut de l'europe est visible de tres loin. Ensuite, de piazza en piazza, nous avons traverser la ville pour voir des tres grand edifice , souvent construit avant meme la decouverte de l'amerique!! Nous avons ...

... out to you they bring it with olive oil and balsamic that is so aged it is like jam! OHHH SOOO GOOOD!!!! We got veggie and margarita pizza to share and it was wonderful! Then afterwards we walked to the Galleria dell'Accademia museum to see the real David. Since casey is studying art she was a great tour guide to all the pieces and pointed out to me that David has MN initialed on his calf that was found years ago but they are too scared to take out. There was also this ...

Today was a wonderful day even though I know I called you Petey and I was crying again, but really it was a very relaxing easy day. We found the laundry mat for tomorrow and went to a place called St. Catherine which is where the first woman to be named a saint was in 1317. We were not suppose to take pics, but the guy in the gift shop was sleeping so I took video which you will see. When we went in the gift shop I had a camera around my neck and started ...

... snoozing while hugging my bag. From Chuisi to Siena was a nice little train which is really modern and cool.

Lady in the next block of seats beside me started crying when a phone call came in so I dug out a packet of tissue for her. I could still remember the wetness of my hands as her tears dripped onto it when I passed her the tissue.

Truth be told, I did not prepare for Siena. It was a place that I knew of while researching during the earlier part of my planning and ...

... the old Italian guys left, then we said our arrividercis and I strolled off to find the evening's requisite gelato stop. Noce (nuts), cocco (coconut) and baci (chocolate and hazelnut). It was so good I stopped in at a 2nd gelateria on my way back to the hotel, this time cocco and pear (fresh pear! WOW! I think I'm going to have to go back to this gelateria tomorrow -- they have an amazing collection of fresh gelato flavors.) Tomorrow check out time is 10am -- no ...

Hi everyone, Today i started week 11 here with two weeks to go. I can hardly believe how fast the time has gone. I have been busy of course over the last two weeks trying to fit in as much as I can that I haven't seen around this amazing city. Every Wednesday we visit a place in Siena and our guide Serena, speaking in Italian, describes passionately everything she knows. Next week we visit the Duomo which I was saving for last. There have been a few highlights over the last 2 weeks ...

... gargoyles and stuff. I miss the days when people cared about the look of their construction and strove for more than a tall glass rectangle or a squat, cinderblock box with windows. At least we still have the Chrysler and the Empire State Buildings. After wandering around the Cathedral, we checked out the Museo dell'Opera Metropolitana . Assume you have to pay for this museum, but after wandering around for ten minutes or so trying to ...