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“The Creator made Italy from designs by Michael Angelo!” -Mark Twain, “The Innocents Abroad”* In lieu of a “Welcome” sign, your arrival...

We start the day in Siena with a continental breakfast – the standard, uninspired fare of hardboiled eggs, cold cuts, cheese, bread. Evermore important, though, we get the party started by pounding some machine-made espresso, then we head outside. The van pulls up right on schedule, and we are the second couple in. We stop at two more hotels up the road, then begin the 45 minute trek along winding roads of Tuscany. Eventually, the medieval towers of San Gimignano start to pee

“Tuscany looks like what all of Italy should look like.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (attributed) We stare out the train window as the...

Siena is such a confusing place, initially, when arriving by rail. You walk out the front door of the train station, and all you see in...