Tuscany- Day Three

When you have sixteen people walking around a medieval town, lots of interesting things happen. One thing that doesn’t happen is a lot of sightseeing.

We woke up the third morning to a gorgeous blue sky…. I could hear the roosters in the far distance and birds were chirping quite loud. I am usually a great sleeper but somehow here, I can’t wait to wake up and start the day- I am averaging a few hours a night…

The breakfast consisted of a few kinds of cheeses, prosciutto, crusty bread and the most delicious cherries… oh, and of course, coffee. We lingered over coffee and headed for Siena.

As I have mentioned before- we are a big group. To achieve some order, we divided ourselves into several different committees. Yours truly is in the food division- planning meals, buying ingredients and deciding where to dine. Most kids were in the planning the day committee. They decided we would all go to Siena, which was about an hour away. We arrived there and slowly made our way to the main square. It took a while as we stopped several times for water, pizza, olive bread and gelato. We did look around a bit and took lots of lovely pictures but somehow the focus was on where we were going to sit down and eat….

After lunch, we walked a bit more and ended up in a bar/café that had very interesting looking sandwiches. We had cappuccinos (which I realize is a very touristy thing to do – as most Italians stop drinking cappuccinos after 11 AM) and decided to get our dinner packed from there- including the dessert.

We headed back to our cars and some of us in the food committee headed to the super market to buy some more supplies for dinner- including the most delicious and cheap wines I have ever had the pleasure to taste…

Dinner consisted of a platter of olive bread, raisin bread, cheese, ham, sandwiches and lots of wine. We started with the most delicious sparkling rose wine and finished with a yummy white.

As I anticipated, this trip too is turning into a food and wine fest…