San Gimignano Hike

My original plan for today was to go to town this morning then go do a gorge hike this afternoon. Well this morning I was looking at the hike again and it is in a dry riverbed…at least if it hasn’t rained recently. If it had it was not recommended as you would be walking in the river…and it has been raining a lot in the area so I looked for a different hike to do. I found one similar to our Pienza hike where it started in San Gimignano and you walked a loop through the countryside and had great views of town and everything along the way. We decided to do that one and it is probably good we did as we noticed the rivers on the drive this morning all looked a bit flooded!

So after wandering town we headed out on our loop trail. At first we kept seeing these plants that had odd balls at the top by the flowers. Thanks to the plant identifying app we learned that they were Rosy Garlic plants! I broke one of the balls off and it definitely was garlic, it had a very strong smell. We had never seen garlic growing like this so that was fun! We learned something new! Basically the whole plant is edible!

After our first break we stared walking and all of a sudden it started raining pretty hard! It had also gotten pretty cold so we put on our rain gear as it is very warm and used our umbrellas to stay dry as it wasn’t windy or anything. I don’t mind walking in the rain when it is like this. It is kind of miserable when it is windy and stormy, but this was fine. The trail is actually dirt roads that cars occasionally come down and while it was raining a car went to pass us, but stopped and asked if we wanted a ride. That was super nice of them, but we thanked them and said we were fine as really it was a nice walk even with the rain. Though after it stopped raining it was soooo humid! Walking back up into town we got so hot because it was so muggy even though it wasn’t that hot outside! So of course we got some gelato to cool down! I got peach and melon which was amazing, Raymond got dark chocolate which was by far the best we’ve had. It was very dark which we love, but it also was somehow like melted chocolate but cold. It was weird, but delicious. It was a bit rainy eating the gelato, but we made it work.

Then we headed home to relax before dinner and it was sunny and gorgeous when we got here!Baca lagi