Tuscany

  

Today we took a tour of Tuscany. Just 6 people our tour guide, a young American girl who is studying here and a driver. We started in San Gimignano.

This place is incredible. It’s like a trip back in time.

Narrow streets full of shops and buildings that are hundreds of years old.

We were completely amazed by this whole new world.

We tried hard to capture it with our cameras but like they say, “you had to be there”.

Scenes are the exception, they are the norm.

What else can I say but that we loved every minute of it.

Then we had lunch and wine tasting at a small vineyard just a short distance away with and incredible view of the town in the distance.

The Grapes are ready to harvest.

The scenery was spectacular.

The only thing I didn’t enjoy was the wine but everyone else liked it and the food was wonderful.

Then we stop at an even smaller town on a hill with a wall all around but I’m sorry I don’t remember the name.

Then we spent a couple of hours in Siena.  It has more shops more churches and more narrow streets.

It also has a Duomo like Florence and I suggest you click on the photo to view the larger size so you can see some of the detail on the front of this building.

This is what most of the town looks like.

It is so much fun to just wander these small street taking the sites and sounds. You can imagine that you are in some other time in history.

This is the square in the center of town with the top of the Duomo behind.

And oh, did I mention that we had a wonderful day?