Leon Bianco San Gimignano
Via Panciatichi 2 San Gimignano, Tuscany, 51100, Italy
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Medieval Curiosity
... me again. I head for the Torre Grossa, the highest tower in town, but once there I'm told that I need to wait for ten minutes. It can't be that busy surely? I'm the only person waiting form goodness sake. It turns out that the woman selling the tickets is on a break. She hurries back to her post when she sees that I have been waiting, and smiles apologetically. The climb to the top is a breeze. I've been in training these last few days, and even ...
Italian drivers are crazy!
So, because we are in Tuscany for a week I thought I would make things easy for you if I separated each day as we will be travelling somewhere different each day! So here goes…
FLORENCE
It was a half hour walk to the car rental place from our hotel, not too bad in the scheme of things. We ended up with an almost brand new car, not even a month old, we were pretty happy with that. With the help of Tom Tom we hit the roads of Florence and headed towards ...
San Gimignano
... his. One innovative citizen then built two towers. The base of the second was the same size as the top of the first. If you put the second tower on top of first it was, of course, taller than the Bishop’s.
The Duomo was completed in 1148. It’s walls are completely covered with frescoes illustrating scenes from both the old and new testament. It is quite beautiful and ...
We're not in Kansas anymore...
... re off up North. Heading through Napoli up to Arezzo. We’ll be there until the 30th june so fingers crossed, they have hi-speed wireless broadband at this farm (ahem…) otherwise this post might never actually reach the internet..
We miss you all and are thinking of you.
Liz xx
NB At the time of writing the above information was correct, however, as you will see from our location (Florence) our plans changed again. We'll save that one for the next blog post! x
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Watch your step
... action, the side walks vary in width and height from one end of the block to the next. It was sometimes hard to enjoy the scenery because there was so much dog or horse poop on the side walk or in the street. It became somewhat comical by the end, especially when one day we got front row seats to the droppings of a horse. We were walking through the city when police on horse back strolled passed us not even realizing that their horses had a left a present behind. ...



