Italy, day 6

Even a good night's sleep was not enough to ward off a cold for Lynne, but we awoke to a sunny morning with lots of fog beneath us, and a wonderful




breakfast at the B&B. We then headed off to Siena with some rather shaky directions, but we made it work and found our destination.
We toured the very large Duomo contoured in dark green and white marble stripes on the outside, and used our iPad to guide us on a tour of marble floors, colorful frescos, carved choir seats and sculpted pulpits on the inside, all from hundreds of years ago.












We then headed to Il Campo for lunch, looking across a giant courtyard at a bell tower stretching to the sky. They even have horse races in the square each year it is so large! It was a bit crowded for an April Tuesday, hopefully a good sign for the upcoming tourist season. A quick lunch of tagliatelle and stewed wild boar, and we were back to the museum of the Duomo, but not without shopping for shoes along the way.
We toured the museum, which includes a passageway to the top of the wall built as part of the long-since abandoned plans to enlarge the cathedral,




which offers sweeping views for miles around. We then headed to the crypt, which was only discovered beneath the cathedral 15 years ago, with more frescoes and 7th century ruins. We can only guess that they have lost more beauty across Europe than we have created in our short 500 year history in North America.
We arrived back at the B&B to have a glass of wine, a game of cards, and watch the sun set. We dined for a second night at the B&B, where the son of the owner must be an aspiring chef. DEEEEEELISH! Tonight was a vegan muffin topped with Parmesan cream sauce (it's much better than it sounds), pasta bolognese, seared local beef (like a London broil only very tender), and panna cotta with hot dark chocolate sauce. Lynne then hit the hay early trying to beat her cold after being a trooper all day long.
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Location:Traveling north