Siena

The “early to rise” part of our plan didn’t really happen and we ended up waking up around…11AM? After lazing around for a bit (our hostel was really nice – it was hard not to just sit around and enjoy the luxury of a big room, air conditioning, and free wifi) we headed to the train station. We were told we could take the bus, but we’d missed the one for that hour and decided to go for the train instead.

The train took a lot longer than we’d expected so we didn’t actually get into Siena until around 5:30PM. We knew that the last bus out was at 7:10PM, so we would have to do the speed tour. We bought our bus tickets to save the last minute hassle and set into the city center.

On the bus from the train station we ran into a group of students from the UC system who were studying Italian in Siena. They were nice enough to let us follow them into the main Piazza because we would have gotten so lost.

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