Montaperti Siena

... 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

... our salami and cheese and looked at the beautiful landscape. We then played cards in the small hallway of our B&amp;B and drank some beer and met Allen and Theresa from California. I was getting ready to beat Mick's ass so we quit playing and talked to them. Anyway, since we spent our Euros with the meat market we had to go to the corner and get 2 slices of pizza for 6.50 euros and that came with a Cola. Each piece was the biggest piece of pizza we ever ...

... Once it is finished and the black screen appears again do not close out as now you can hit the white arrow and watch it without interruption because it is fully downloaded. So hit the arrow the first time and walk away then come back and when it is the black screen again hit the arrow and you won't have any interruptions.<br>Chow

... if we were on the right bus for Via Del Tozzi, they said, "no, no". Now what? So I went back up to the driver and he told me "momento". I waited and a few minutes later we came to a stop and he told us to wait for #5. Then he parked the bus right there and walked off. We thought he said 50 minutes. Whew, we did not know what to do. We were looking at the schedule on the wall in Italian ...

... a a huge square called Piazza del Campo (a Mary Harrison favorite!) where horses race twice a year in a centuries old race called the Palio di Siena. The locals take it extremely seriously as different districts of the city are matched up against one another. Piazza del Campo is known as one of Europe's greatest public squares and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. <br><br>On our way home we ducked into a local pizzeria with hysterical &amp; delicious slice-of ...

... a statement about mankind and life and,<br>I don't even know. In the photos I posted, there's one where you can see the wall that had been built, and in front of it is the parking lot, where the altar probably would have instead sat. It reminds me of those black and white photo-shopped photos where the tree is growing in the middle of a highway, or Grand Central Station is placed in the middle of a waterfall. It was just so stunning. It also made me think about how that ...

... and we split a bottle of wine, while I logged on to check on Mike's reply. Nothing yet. After the wine, we circled the small hill top city, and waited until 3 when our first RR recommended wine cellar opened. Adamso was there waiting for us, and pointed us down into the cellar and told us to look around. Lauren opened the book and sure enough there was his photo. We came back to the tasting room, and I started speaking to Adamso in broken Italiano. He ...

... every flag waver from the 17 neighborhoods caught their flags as far as I can tell, so I did not have to know the next move of the knight should his flag waver miss. People line the narrow streets, when two marching contrada met head on, everyone have to squeeze to get by, you can see the sweat forming on forheads under the wigs. By 5pm race day, the marching procession enters the horsetrack around piazza, and the 20,000 specators fill in. It ...

(Jim) Today we visited Siena. It was a cloudy, rainy day. We spent quite a bit of time navigating the narrow, twisting stone streets before we found the street market we were looking for. Afterwards we had lunch and then stopped in at the Museo Civico. They say of Siena's art collections that they are "second ...

This past week I went to Siena with two of my friends here, Bob and Amanda. We left on the train on Saturday, which only took about an hour and a half. In Siena, truely NO ONE speaks english, not even the people at the hotel. This wasn't a bad thing, it just made it more interesting. While we were there we visited the Duomo, Il Campo(where they hold horse races twice a year), the bell tower, Museo Civico and Saint Catherines ...