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Piazza del Campo: Where it’s at in Siena
Each evening, we joined the locals for a stroll around the Piazza del Campo, Italy’s largest medieval square. It was built in the twelfth century and paved in red brick and travertine in 1349. (You guessed it; that was straight from wikipedia.) But we really did enjoy this huge area with its sloping wedges of [...]
Continue reading...Day 5: The Gates, Part 3
10. November 2009
Part Three: Other Medieval Gates in Siena
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Day 4, Part Two: Hotel-with-a-View-of-the-Tuscan-Countryside
10. November 2009
Nick got so excited about missing St. Catherine's mummified head that he forgot to write about our change of hotel.
Continue reading...Day 4: Sweet Saint Cathy
1. November 2009
I claimed this as my day. The day we toured Nick Style. What is Nick Style? I'm glad you asked!
Continue reading...Day 3: Sightseeing in Siena
15. October 2009
This felt like the first real day of our vacation.
Continue reading...Day 2: Skippin’ Town
7. October 2009
By now Dana probably wrote something about the Hotel reservations being messed up and how we decided (or I would say “took the opportunity”) to just skip out of Rome and head to Siena early. If she didn’t, well, you know now. We packed up the backpacks and took all our possessions, via bus and subway [...]
Continue reading...Day 1: How to get off to a good start in Italy
30. September 2009
Travel and Rome (really 2 days squished into one)
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10. November 2009
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