Lucca?....Siena...right

Sunday I planned a trip to the small city of Lucca. The only city in italy with its entire renaissance era fortified wall completely intact. You can ride bikes on it and everything!...Now the train ticket said platform 4. Platform 4 said Lucca 12:10; it was 12:00..right on time. Took my seat, a couple sat next to me,  asked me if this was the train to Rome. I laughed to myself as I helped them. "Rome? don't they know how to use trains? I helped the couple then our train left the station. Just as I settled into my seat ready for my sunday in Lucca a man came over the loud speaker. He welcomed all passengers from Florence Station Santa Maria Novella to thier regional service train to Siena... I had no reaction, flipped on my head phones looked out the window. "don't i know how to use the trains?"

Siena was a surprise I admit. But i payed for the ticket so i decided i would spend the day in Siena. Without rain, wind, and the need of a good scarf i believe Siena would be a beautiful city. So many small streets covered by footbridges connecting different buildings. Many winding streets but easy to find your way around (if your flipping marco polo like i am!). However the rain, wind and absence of my scarf made Siena very cold and difficult to enjoy. I found my way from the train station to the bus station and caught the right bus with the help of some Italian dudes about my age. However when we got on the bus I had to tell them a billion times i didn't understand what they were saying, and I swear they were trying to sell me a prostitute (or asking if i wanted to be one). So when they said follow us and got off the bus I acted like I didn't understand and stayed on the bus.

At the city center bus stop, I found a few american girls and asked them were to go. They weren't entirely helpful (leave it up to some girls to not know their way around the city they live in). But helpful enough. I found my way to Del Campo, which is the main attraction of Siena and the site of some famous horse races in the summer. I walked around that twice looking for the best place to get out of the rain and have some lunch. Settled on a restaurant and ordered. It was more expensive than most lunches I've had but I wanted to stay out of the rain. The pizza I had was the actually the best i've had since coming to italy (mushrooms, ham, sausage, and cow milk cheese) got a beer from the extensive beer menu. Settled on something german i couldn't pronounce, cause you can't go wrong with a german beer right? (kinda) Could have used some tasty coors light (terrible joke).

In the end Siena was a good experiance and a tasty lunch. I successfully found my way around a new city for the second time, and can check another land mark city off my list.

I admit the picture at the top of the post is a fake. Its a artist's creative reconstruction of my day wandering Siena. I call it "lucca????". This will also satisfy the many people who keep reminding me to post pictures of me and my friends. I'm trying harder to do it and have resorted to my self timer when I am by myself... so there you have stolen my pride...a self timer.

As some of you may know my dear Ipod Watson was taken from us in a freak accident involving the front tire of my bike. May he rest in pieces (literally). As a tribute to watson and the good times. I will post the song that was playing when he fell to his death.

who knows, who cares - Local natives
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHv_IgOk7Ic 

I suggest that you listen to these songs i post while you read or after you read. helps capture the true vibe and relation to the post

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