Siena

To avoid carrying our luggage around Siena, we went to Florence and left our luggage at the hotel. I got a little turned around in Florence so the luggage drop took longer than expected. We got back on the train and went to the medieval city in Italy.

The temperatures were cooler than Rome so we walked around for a couple of hours before getting back on the train to Florence. We saw Piazza del Campo which is a shell shaped piazza in Siena with old brick buildings surrounding the center. Siena also had lots of cute shops with Tuscan theme ceramics inside. We stopped for our daily cappuccino while we warmed up. Italy is interesting because it charges almost double if you drink a cappuccino at a table instead of standing up at the counter. In Siena we walked around the first Duomo church of the week. Italy has many Duomo's in every city. The cathedrals are white and blue striped on the inside and outside.

We made it back to Florence and ate dinner at Trattoria. We had lasagna instead of mushroom pizza. Lasagna became my favorite food to order in Italy. I never even ate lasagna in the states, but now it's a must!