More photos...
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| The ceiling in the library in the Duomo. |
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| Man working...on a tiny corner of the floor of the Duomo. |
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| At the top of the 'panoramic' view tower...just parallel to the Duomo's bell tower (can't climb that). Lots o' steps to get up here as well. |
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| The view of Siena from the top of the panoramic view tower |
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| The warning at the top |
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| Heading back down the narrow winding stairs |
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| While riding an escalator (more correctly, a series of escalators) to get down 1 hill in Siena, we saw this bicyclist ride his bike onto the escalator and hold on as he went up the steep hill. |
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| Where we need to go... |
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| How we're going to get there... Well, we discovered as we were returning to our car that Siena is basically 2 really high peaks with a huge valley in between, so to return to our car we had to go down 1 peak and then up the other. Good news is we found our car, figured out how to use the pay box to get out of the lot and returned to the Castel in time to give the 'Ferrari' back. A lovely lunch outside in such beautiful weather, we both read our books and enjoyed the view. There is a sales meeting going on here this week for a car company called Lancia ~ seems quite swank. So, there are about 65 folks here all looking very Italian and stylish and lots of fancy cars parked about the grounds. As Leah was in the spa in the 'wet zone' (the pool area), I was sitting in the courtyard and got wind of a wedding that was taking place this evening on the grounds. The groom ~ a native of Finland, who lives in the US ~ was working with the wedding coordinator of the Castel and said they would be running a little late as 2 of their guests were lost and a 'piece of the bride's dress was left at the previous hotel!?!?! They all seemed quite calm and in the end it went off without a hitch ~ although the 2 lost friends didn't arrive until after the ceremony was over. As we were eating dinner tonight, their small wedding party was seated across from us and seemed to be having a great time!! Congrats!! Well, our time in Italy is coming to a close and it's been a fantastic adventure!! I am so happy to have shared it with Leah and we have laughed our way through Italy with lots of memories to share!! We are off tomorrow to London for 1 night and then will be back home on Thursday night!! I am going leave you tonight with the sunset from our window...  Ciao... xoxo Stacy |
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