This year was my wife Eileen and my 25th Wedding Anniversary, so we decided to go to Italy for 17 days in June - spending our actual anniversary in Florence. I decided not to take my laptop with me, so I wasn't able to blog while we were traveling, so I am now taking the opportunity to tell the story of our "Italy 2008" trip.
Woke up to a beautiful sunny morning - was a little anxious taking a shower but after a few minutes the warm water came through - whew, wasn't looking forward to another cold shower.
Headed out for San Gimignano - the "Town of Towers". We found parking quite easily – unusual for these Hill Towns. We wandered around the town, visiting the Duomo, the Civic Museum and up the Grand Tower (Eileen decided not to climb the tower) – dodging the showers.
Eileen bought a Tuscan plate from a local artist and a tablecloth for our Dining Room table.
We were going to go to Siena for the rest of the day, but we decided to drive on to Volterra instead, where we visited the "Etruscan Museum" and the Roman Theatre. We saw a wedding party come out of the town hall - it was a Saturday.
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It was still an hour or so until the restaurants opened for dinner so we headed back to Montalcino for dinner at "Les Bariques".
Montalcino
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