Agriturismo Podere Sant'Antonio
Travel Blogs from Orvieto
Siena
The day was rainy and quite cold but definitely didn't ruin my plans. Today I spent the day in Siena, another semi walled commune. This is a place that you could just wander up and down its streets for hours, which I did. I think I took in a good mix of old and new here. As lunch hour was approaching I aimlessly wandered looking for a place to have a bite and stumbled upon a university with super cheap ...
Car hire for 3 days over
... impressed by a bloke playing the flute, his music floated through this quiet olive tree park. Nick grumbled away about it for the next hour. Yes, he didn,t buy one of his cd,s. set off west to bibbona to see the seaside areas. Hmmmmm everything closed, beach is black sand, area is dull n drab, buildings everywhere but all shut. So ended up a fun hour trying to find somewhere to stay, ended up near hill town of bolgheri. Hotel with only us in ...
We Stay in Orvieto
... the BNB so Carol can rest. Later, she is still not up to going out so I go to find her some medicine and food. I find the pharmacy and pick up some pills for her tummy and some Tylenol. Then I walk around a find Ristorante Pizzeria Charlie. How can I not order from here. I order a Margherita pizza and a tartufano pizza, which is sausage and truffles. When I get back we feast in the Room and the truffles pizza is amazing. Sausage and truffles on top ...
The Italian Version of San Francisco
Want to get an intense leg workout and don't live in San Francisco- come to Siena! Proper walking shoes are a must to travel around this city.
The city is lovely- as is just about every Italian city- and plays host to the famous horse racing that occurs once a year (Palio di Siena). I of course arrived a week or 2 too late in order to witness the madness.
I was privy to a guide that was essentially impossible to understand ...
Tuscany!
... br> Mick has hired a car for us to travel to a few different places and we find ourselves in San Gimigniano, and some other fantastic Tuscan places.
Siena is a cool place and there is so much history here. Just walking throughn the streets is amazing and I'm getting used to the Italian way of life to some extent. The food is the first thing I notice, it is so good!!! ...