Piccolo Il Palio Siena

We arrived from Lucca just in time for a sublime sunset... it was like the sky was on fire!! See photos!!<br>I was a bit pooped so I opted to stay in the scoobs reading and relaxing while Kim headed into the village to scope it out. <br>Next morning started with a beautiful sunrise which was quickly replaced by some storm clouds. Fortunatly the storm passed over without parting with a drop of rain and we had sun again when we both headed ...

Hello everyone,<br>We had such fun today!! The square had it's first ever market day or flea market. It was filled with cheeses which by the way Percino was our favorite and the fresh sliced procuitto was unbelievable. We just walked around all day. The first part of the day we did two loads of wash and dry which cost $18 us dollars. Then we had wine free and paid and had a great time. We then came back to ...

... the knee. Very, very chic and way out of Missouri league. Anyway, we will be here tomorrow and since we took pictures of almost anything worth seeing we will send what we have today and probably not have much tomorrrow. Oh, but tomorrow in Palio Campo square it is market day, aka flea market. All the tables were set up today so that will be interesting and we will be doing some wash. Talk to you all tomorrow and signing out for now......<br>Love Mick and Lisa

... 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 ...

... Well, not the bus, but the views from the bus. And the people were not like the folks in Rome.They were just small town, nice, eclectic people. I got off the bus and was determined not to walk aimlessly so stared at my map for a solid 5 minutes. I even asked two people, "Dov'e siamo sulla mappa?"so that I could get confirmation on exactly where I was standing. I started off on my walk and sure enough I saw more of Italy's beautiful circles. Circling and circling and circling and ...

... Mike is a good safety and a great running back. I hung up not knowing what he was going to do. Finally I had convinced Mike, gotten his information and now Tisma was reconsidering, what's a guy got to do to close a deal around here? TomTom recalculated the route, and then took us in a circle having us repeatedly take the same two roundabouts 200 yards apart. Lauren recalculated TomTom while I drove toward the city center. We parked and I only had a euro and ...

... went. We then managed to somehow turn an hour and a half drive in to a three hour one as traffic out of Florence and hopeless maps combined to blow us off track completely. Words of advice for travellers to Italy.....GET A GPS!!! We drive around here with 3 maps of the area, and all show different motorway exits, roads and locations of towns on those roads. As you can imagine, this makes travel somewhat of a lottery at times although we are now getting better at ...

The next chapter... We caught the train from Florence to Siena this morning at about midday. It was an hour and a half on the train and we chatted to some New Yorkers for most of the trip. Looked at each other's photos and gave each other tips on where to (or not to) visit. We finally arrived at the Siena station and got talking to an Aussie girl from Melbourne who has been travelling Europe for six months. We got some more tips and ...

Hi everybody! I hope this entry finds you all well. It is amazing how much I miss you guys and think about you all the time! So much has happened in the little over two weeks that I have been here that it is hard to believe. Tme is flying by which is captured in a popular phrase over here - "Tomorrow is April" it'll be time to go home before we know it! So classes have started and I am trying to find some way to balance homework ...