Our aim was to hit about 8 different villages, we maybe hit 4? It took a little while for us to get out past the traffic but one we did, it was pretty easy riding. The scenery was pretty nice, a lot of green, some brown and often many large patches of yellow from the sunflowers. The mountains were always in view somewhere and many small towns were on top of small hills or on larger mountains. Most of the countryside seemed to stretch on for a long time.
We made it to Siena, home of another church Jess likes for it's rows of marble which were once green and white but are now black and white and Il Palio, a horserace through the town where riders from each different area of the town race wearing their neighborhood's colors and crest. The last time we were here the entire place was covered by scaffolding.
We also stopped at the monastery Abbazia.
The roads were superwindy and had some great views. I forget the names of all the towns we went to but it was basically the same in each, medieval towns, old and very pretty. Always a small church in the Piazza, a large tower, old people and some random Peteys. There's not a lot I can say about them and think I can do a better job showing you.
Stayed in Montepulcciano, which was a very beautiful town. The parking was kind of scary, as there were two levels and of course we first tried on the small pay one. We moved down but then had to hike back up which kind of sucked. When we got to the hostel, which was an old Plaza, run by the Jesuits, there was no one there. We had to bother some old guy and get him to call the number since we didn't have a cell that worked. He did. People are pretty helpful in Europe. The apartment was friggin' hugge. Two bedrooms, a tv room, kitchen, bathroom and study are all for 120 a night. Not to mention the view...
We headed out to walked the entire town. Jess mentioned that the restaurant we stopped at had wild boar. Ok, I'm in for that. But we didn't go to that one. Instead we walked the entire town and read every menu to find food for everyone which meant, pizza, vegetable stuff and wild boar. In the end, Glenn had some pasta, the ladies had some soup and something else and I had the wild boar, which I must say was very tasty. It tasted like one of the pork recipes Jess makes in the crockpot.
After checking our email, or rather Jess checking it because it wouldn't both of our iPads on, she realized that she maybe made a mistake with some of the dates, and emailed the guy on Rome, because that's where we were headed the next day, and the guy didn't have us coming until the following day, meaning we had no place to stay.
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