Siena 1st September 2017

We had a later start today our train was a Regional one to Florence arriving at 11.57 with a very quick dash to our 12.10 to Siena arriving at 1.40.  We had intended to catch the lift and mini metro down to the station in Perugia but it was very wet so caught a cab downtown.  When we arrived at Siena we then had 9 escalators to get up to the town itself,  Sam had done all of his research so all good we then walked to our hotel which is the Hotel Italia (which featured in a 1950s film).   We booked in and headed out as we only had half the day, certainly a place to see, again a walled town founded by the Romans in the 1^st century, just like going back in time, beautiful churches, lots of the wall in very good condition.  We just walked taking in everything before us, the Piazza del Campo which is famous and always photographed, is regarded as one of Europe’s greatest Medieval Squares.  The twice a year horse race Palio di Siena is held around the edges of the piazza.  Sam said he was enthralled by Siena as I think anyone would be.  We made our way back to our hotel stopping at a very delightful place for dinner, it was obviously the “in” place I am sure every Italian in Siena came in.  Just gorgeous.  We wandered home completely spent.  We have to be ready for a big day tomorrow.  Sabine and Sam