Gioia Siena
C Cavour 25 Siena, Tuscany, 50129, Italy
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Florence, Tuscany
Next stop from the Cinque Terre - Firenze. We stayed in another perfectly located place (god, we did awesome research) which had brilliant and friendly service. Have learned that this sort of service in Italy is about as endangered as a tree kangaroo... the lonely planet says that Italians can be a bit standoffish or alternatively confronting. This …
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Day 346 - At Home in Italy
... setting sun, burning like the fire inside of me that gave me grounds to run. Towards the horizon and beyond leading me farther from the norm of a life left stagnant, unquestioned and unformed. A child in the world, I left naive and ignorant. A man stands before me, his blood pulsing with passion spent. In the heart of his homeland wandering aimless and free. Living his life fully and with purpose, the way it was meant to ...
Siena...Michael hated it at first!
... the Piazza del Duomo or Piazza Dei Miracoli. (from wiki) "It contains four great religious edifices: the Duomo (cathedral), the Campanile (the cathedral's free standing bell tower), the Baptistry and the Camposanto".
We get some quick pics and go into the Cathderal Chapel to pray and i get yelled at by some jobsworth woman telling me i have to cover my shoulders. Fine but there is no need for the rudeness and shouting at me in Italian ...
Siena!
... late afternoon and got a bit lost trying to find the bus station at the train stop. We proceeded by foot to "elevate" into Siena (literally had to take 10 or so escalators through a mall...up up and away!). Once at the top we quickly found a bus stop and were off to our hostel in the heart of the city.
Side note- Syd put a lot of work into printing off maps of all our hotel locations, unfortunately those maps are miniscule ...
Siena, San Gimignono and Giorno Della Donna
... it's well worth a listen). They are a percussion orchestra, similar to the Samba Schools of Brazil, and they were phenomenally good. ...



