Trip today was to Sienna, Monterigigioni and back to Pienza or a supper traditional soups, spelt and bean for Liane and bread and cabbage. Both were outstanding and filling. Monteriggioni was a very small complete walled city with towers and a spontaneous lunch place.

While in Sienna, we toured the Duomo and probably did inappropriate things inside such as laughing about some of the historic frescoes and taking weird pictures. While awe-inspiring as a architectural structure, we couldn’t help thinking it was more a tribute to man’s skill and cult-like presentation of the gospel gone south. Siena was much like a medieval shopping mall instead of a terrific walled city. Cars were everywhere and high school age kids behaving badly were jammed everywhere. Still Il Campo was quite a sight/site to see.