La Bandita Pienza

... and geleta, i.e. ice cream. We are back at the room and packed for our final place to see tomorrow as we head by train to Cinque Terre. We are staying on Manarola and think it will be an easy train ride and a wonderful view. We will attach pics tonight and then sometime tomorrow attach some video to show you the parade in the square with people on stilts.<br>Hugs and Kisses<br>Mick and Lisa<br>XXX<br>OOO

... of me. She yelled at me and I snapped my hand back. In Italy the Italians eat at the counters after ordering and stand there and eat. It was funny, Mick and I were laughing and then decided we should order a little of meat and sausage. In Rick's book it talks about a picnic lunch they make for around 15 euros. I told the guy just small plate, please. Well 21 euros later the stupid americans were taken again. We went to our balcony and drank some wine and ...

I hope this works, it has been hard to attach some of the video because it times out. FYI to all my not so computer literate friends and family. When you first open the video, it will start and then stop in the middle to keep reloading and then start and stop again. This can get frustrating but is necessary until it is completely ...

... like we knew what we were looking at and of course I was talking when a young girl named Meghan came up to us and helped. Yes, a Meghan wow it was great. We talked to her and she was here on her own from Washington going to med school for free because she was volunteering at the hospital. She stays with an Italian family and she said it is O.K. We followed her and then she went one way and we ...

Florence a delight, the architecture like nothing we have seen. We picked up a rental car and headed to Siena. Robyn was the navigator (only twice around a few roundabouts so far) and Chris had a senior moment, stalled in the middle of the road, still working out which side to drive on, wipers going full tat in lieu of indicator and trying to find the button start to get us moving again &#8211; hilarious and loads of laughs. Eventually found the way to ...

Good Morning! <br>Everybody's vote for favorite city has been Siena....overall. Great parking, a fantastic dome, a terrific plaza, and the most spectacular view of Tuscany. From the top of of a dome building, we could see miles and miles. <br>Lucca was great because we were able to enjoy it in the daylight this time.....with good maps, we were able to get in ...

... wasn&#8217;t having it!<br><br>My favorite part of our day in Siena was our visit to the Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta, Siena&#8217;s Duomo. It&#8217;s the most beautiful church I&#8217;ve ever been in &#8211; it is so ornately decorated that I don&#8217;t think an inch was left untouched. It was built as a direct challenge to Florence&#8217;s Duomo, and Duccio (a famous proto-Renaissance artist) created some of his ...

... we tried earlier in the day, but this was so much better. I'm glad we were able to taste the same grape processed differently. It strikes up a lot of thoughts for me since I have a large interest in the engineering side of food science as well as the nutritional side. After tasting the variation of the wine we departed for S. Anna in Camprena, our residence for the evening. We were actually living in a monastery that still had some fuctiional ...

... about each others business and do everything together. When we arrived, Church was letting out (mind you there are only two in town and one is the center of town) and everyone gathered in the piazza to chat and play cards. The women all gather to catch up on each others lives and the men smoke and play cards as they shoot the ****. We then went on a ...

... and can only conclude that this is purely for aesthetic value. These vineyards are commercial enterprises and we are looking at rows and rows each planted with a beautiful, blooming rose bush on the end. Would I see this in Napa? 2. Eight kind of chocolate gelato - I do my part to support the local vendors by sampling as much gelato as possible along the way. Could you even imagine that there would be a need to have 8 different types just of chocolate? You even order chocolate ...