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Anthony;s Day
... the rest were escalators. I will NOT miss lugging my case up and down sets of stairs at train stations.
We arrived too late for the meet and greet for our tour, so we asked at the desk and were sent up the road to a lovely restaurant where I have spaghetti Americana and Anthony had lasagna. We are staying at the Hotel Milton which is just near the Colosseum. Tomorrow the touring begins in earnest. 8.30 tomorrow morning is kick ...
The house
... I found out that during my walk of contemplation during that rugged Wednesday that I thought we weren't going to get financing that the spot where I stopped to grab some lunch from the wagon was no more than three blocks from where a new Ikea Mega Store is about to open! We have been contemplating what a little paint, tile, and spiffing will do to the place. It is going to be nothing short of breath taking!
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Formula 1 in Tuscany
... so we decided we’d head for the main highway 326 and onto the A1 Autoroute to get to Montepulciano the fast way. Much better! Although we didn’t see as much of the beautiful countryside, our stress levels went way down as we drove easily on really good roads. Except for the offramps, or, "What offramps?" On the A1, there are almost no offramps, and we were taken about 30 km further down the road than we wanted to go before we could get ...
Rough start, pleasant ending
... up any worse. We walked about 2 km and found the place.
After a few minutes, Al got things settled and we loaded up our stuff with good directions for how to get out of Florence and to Siena, where we had two sets of directions to get from Siena to the Fattoria Di Argiano. We got out of Florence without a hitch and traveled about 60 km south on the Siena-Firenza Autoroute (the Italians call Florence "Firenza"), where we easily got off at the Siena Nord exit.
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Old narrow streets not made for cars
... putting in the rear view mirrors, and not being able to turn around we went down a narrow road where our car got wedged between the walls.......we (John) scrapped the mirrors and sides of the car. John couldn't go forward so he backed out, with great difficulty....no one was around and we can laugh now. John used a permenent marker pen and covered up most of the damage. ...


