Wake up... your new city awaits...

Well, at least it was not 4AM but I woke up QUITE early from jet lag. The wifi in the apartment was perfect so after I had caught up with everything... personal stuff and world events and social media and games and a few movie trailers... It was still barely first light. LOL... I decided to get up and go for my first Siena walkabout. The city was still asleep, was quiet and quite deserted except me, the street cleaners, garbage clean up crews and very few other early stragglers. None of the shops was open. The whole town had a surreal and serene feel about it. Clean, unspoiled, uncrowded. I ventured to imagine the Siena of yore... I walked for a couple of hours as the city began to wake and the crowd started to fill... I was able to capture a glimpse of the Tuscany hills awaiting...

I grabbed some croissants and coffee for breakfast and headed back to the apartment. Time to wake the princess.

After breakfast we went out together. I showed S where I had gone, then we went to other areas of the city. Siena was a great city in that it was of moderate size, had a lot of history and amazing monuments, but to me, the most endearing thing about it was it was still a real, living city with everyday people, not completely overrun with tourists if you went a little off the beaten track. There were so many amazing, cute little nuggets of regular life around each coners. Including some naked lady stalking out her window at passerbys

We took a break, had a beer in one of the restaurants in the Piazza del Campo square before we went back for lunch in our apartment and rested before we went back out to check out the rest of the city and the Palazzo Publico museum. There I found the original Italian FacePalmer.

We had an amazing dinner at La Tarvena di San Giuseppe. Appetizers, pappardelle with porcini in wild boar ragu sauce, dessert and a fine bottle of local red wine. The Campo square was lit up and casted a beautiful sight on the setting sky.