Saturday, May 12, 2012

Siena

So there's lot to catch up on. We came to piza today, but we left the farm in Thursday. We rode the train to Siena, which took eight hours from Abruzzo. Then we arrived and booked a campground, also sister campgrounds with our place in Rome. The first night, Thursday we ate pizza nd salad in th restaurant and went to bed early. It was so nice to be in a place on our own that we booked Friday night as soon as we arrived. Friday morning we walked half an hour into the city center. There was a lot of shopping, but we made it piazza drl campo. Famous for outdoor horse racing twice a year. From here we took pictures, soaked in sun, nd climbed to h op of the bill tower at the church. It's the highest point in town. It's Tuscany,mso the entire country side is green, speckled in vineyards,moline gomes and farms. It's really the best view and the most typical you think of in Italy. Afterwards we worse anus through town, and did some suburban shopping in the evening, looking at a bike store, coffee shop, and shoe store. We ended up there because we thought about renting bikes, but it just wasn't possible with today's schedule. For the first time we got to see real Italian people doing day to day things, we always knew they didn't just hang out and ride buses and go to historic churches. It wore us out so we had the same pizza and salad dinner at the campground and went to bed. This morning, we did the normal coffee, pastry deal, then left our bags and rode the bus down to the city center. We w spe more sights including the medici fort, and another church. Our alms was in the form of Parmesan nd salami, which was accepted graciously. Then we caught a bus to the camp for our bags, and then tithe train station to leave for Pisa.

2 comments:

  1. z and d - fun catching up, but I'm confused...you left the farm Thursday, are in Tuscany for how long? where are you headed next? have you decided if you are going to go to the folks in Austria yet? Dad, Sen, Grance and Zac and I went to grandpa's memorial last week. Very nice, and fun to see everyone. Nate's wife's parents just moved to Ruidoso so they'll be coming down at some point. It will be fun for you to see them then. Mom is coming for Mothers Day dinner today. It's also Jackie's birthday today too, so we will have a feast. Dad will come to Cruces tomorrow to celebrate his and mine together. Facetime us if you can this afternoon.

    Love, Z

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  2. Wow tat is really neat they r moving to ruidoso. So good you. Guys all went. I saw a pic of u with Jameson and thought maybe u went to Seattle or something. Bummer Internet was bad...we were going to take iPad to restaurant and have servers sing happy bay in Italian, but just thinking about having to communicate what we wanted became very stressful. So, happy birthday will have to do. What r u and dad doing for birthdays?! I will try to call u 2 tomorrow, but we might not have Internet at that time, we r headed to bee farm in afternoon. Love u guys and happy mothers day to hazel.

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