Il Celesse
Travel Blogs from Siena
Strolling Siena
A lazy morning for us as our agenda is pretty open and consists of exploring the city in random fashion. We get out around 1100 and decide to see the Oratory of San Bernadino since it was included in our combo ticket from yesterday. We stroll through an area previously unexplored by us through the Giraffe contrada. Next to the Oratory is the Church of San Francesco and it is open so we head to that. It is on the border of the Giraffe and Caterpillar contrada duly noted by ...
Wedding Day
... villa at the time! We have all felt strange in different areas of the villa as well. All in all, this was a very interesting part of our trip.
The wedding was held in Monteriggioni. The town is very picturesque and the town hall is very old, being built in the medieval ages. It really was quite hot but the wedding was really nice. ...
Tuscany!
... took me to the city and to the hotel where I was met by the owner of the hotel who said he would not have room in his hotel but will put me in the new hotel he had just bought. So he put my bags in a taxi and we went to this beaut place, with an elevator, and then I crashed...
The next day I caught the train to Florence and met uop with my sisters, Dymph (Dymphina) ...
Sienna
... sooo small. I got bored after about 20 minutes so I went back to my tent. I made some friends with two people that are staying close by in another tent. After chatting with my friends and grabbed some dinner….(pizza again)..MMMMmmm. I am starting to get sick of pizza and pasta now… it seems to be the only thing I eat.
Check out week 20 cont...Florence.
http://blog.travelpod.com/travel-blog/v inoraja/3/tpod.html
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Venice and Milan!
... too so yet again we stocked up on food for the day. We ventured into the center of the city and began our day of shopping. We walked through the world's oldest mall which had a detailed glass ceiling and luxury stores like gucci, prada, etc. Then we found stores more in our price rage like Zara and Mango. We also found 2 designer outlets .. think TJmaxx or Nordstroms Rack with Versace and Fendi. So cool to look around. At 5 all the stores close, so we went to happy hour which is ...