Heading off into the Italian wine country, Tuscany, I basically just threw a dart at the region and picked a city to triangulate from...that city turned out to be Siena, and a better dart was never thrown.
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Siena is a UNESCO World Heritage site, and for good reason. It is a true midieval town, with the big stone walls, a sunken central square, and a way of life that harkens back to the 1500's.
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We planned to stay there one night; we stayed for 3. Best story: Day 2 we decide we're going to rent a car (our first and only time in EEU) so that we can go see the Tuscany countryside (as there are few mass transit options into the countryside). We leave the town and drive off to visit some wineries, and take in the hills. Plan was to get back before dark, as the roads were pretty windy...and totally unmarked...with absolutely no grid, signage, highway markings, or any sense of driving regulations. So, we get back to the town walls around 3pm....at 7pm we get back INSIDE THE TOWN WALLS!!!!! We drove around for hours trying to find our way back inside...between one way streets, dead ends, "roads" that become pedestrian only, "roads" that become busses only, "roads" that stop becoming roads...it was perhaps the most painful driving experience of my life. I was in total meltdown mode, and at one point considered just crashing my car through the stone wall either to enter the town or destroy the car so I could just walk back. Anyhow, that was the end of our driving time in Tuscany...but, thankfully, not the end of our time inside the walls of Siena.
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Inside the Walls Lumpy out
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