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  • ReisenderTuscany
    Tag 15

    Volterra Hike

    Gestern in Italien ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C

    After wandering the town I had had another hike planned, but again it was one that you should only do if it hasn’t rained recently and it has so I found a walk through the countryside around Volterra hike and since we’ve enjoyed the other ones so much decided to do that one. Only…it wasn’t very nice. Most of the hike was on a paved road with cars going by fairly often and no views as there were too many trees and things in the way. It was a long one too so I was like this was kind of a waste, but now we know. Towards the end of the hike we did find some Necropoli Etruscan tombs! There were two big ones and they were pitch black inside so we used our phone lights to see, which didn’t help that much so they were pretty spooky. As we were leaving someone else was going in and we said you need a flashlight and he was like really? I was here last week and there were lights that came on and lit everything up! So no clue why they were off today, but it was fun exploring them in the dark!

    Then back home where it was still nice out and we relaxed outside after dinner. Oh, one other thing - we found a radio station that plays mostly good music (which for some reason is hard to find as they all play like all genres so they might play a couple things I like then a bunch of stuff I can’t stand) and they have a jingle they play after saying the station name and I kept hearing them say “very normal people” as the jingle, but I was like it is in Italian so it must be something else that just sounds like that. So I looked it up today and their slogan is “Very normal people!” That is what they are saying which is a strange thing for them to say all the time. I love it. Tomorrow we head on to our next stop!    Weiterlesen

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    Tag 15

    Volterra Part 2

    Gestern in Italien ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C

    Walking around Volterra was pretty nice. When we got there this morning it was really busy and we were lucky to get a parking spot, and we learned it was because a car race is happening tomorrow! We are just missing another one! This one is classic race cars and we saw them driving down the road as we were headed to the city. Apparently they had been in the main square in the morning so we missed that.

    It was a gorgeous day even if a bit cold at times. Volterra was really not that big, it seemed like it was going to take a lot longer to walk through than it did. We kept ending up in red main squares. And there are lots of shells in the stones in the ground which was fun to try and spy. There were also some pretty nice viewpoints plus a Roman amphitheater! And my friend asked if I would pick up an olive wood spoon for her so I found some here that were pretty nice and picked up one for myself as well. It was a nice city to wander and much less busy after lunch!    Weiterlesen

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    Tag 15

    Volterra Part 1

    Gestern in Italien ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C

    Our real stop for the day was Volterra! We have driven by there every day since we got to the new place, but today was finally the day we explored! We parked at the bottom of the hill and went by their community fountain on the way up the stairs to the city. We had planned on eating lunch at this vegan restaurant, but unfortunately they were closed unexpectedly so we wandered and found another place with bruschetta, that bread and veggie soup we had before, and a chickpea cream soup. The air was cold today even though technically it was warmer than yesterday and we were freezing so hot soup sounded great! And surprisingly it was really good! The bread and veggie soup was amazing and I was like we should have just gotten 2 of them! Oh well, the other thing were good too. Finally some Tuscan food I would go back and get again!

    After lunch I bundled up in everything I brought with me, which wasn’t much as the last two days it has been “colder” but so warm walking around I didn’t wear all my layers…so I left some of them at home today. It was a weird temp, we were cold but hot at the same time. The air was really cold, but it was warm walking around and it was odd.    Weiterlesen

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    Tag 15

    Colle di Val d'Elsa

    Gestern in Italien ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C

    This morning we headed to Colle di Val d'Elsa because once again the Internet said their market was a food market today, but alas it was not. So we just wandered a bit and then headed off towards Volterra. I keep forgetting to mention that driving around a Volterra in the fields are these giant circles or giant sticks. We were like what are these?!? There are a bunch just off the road and we finally looked them up and they are by an artist from Volterra. There are 12 around the countryside near the City, but we only saw 7 or 8, but it was fun driving and spying for them! We finally stopped today to take a photo with one!Weiterlesen

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    Tag 14

    Dinner

    8. Mai in Italien ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C

    This evening I had booked a fancy vegetarian restaurant nearby to try out. We were sitting at our place and it got pretty cold and started raining, but it looked like there was a chance it wasn’t raining where the restaurant was so we headed off to see…and it was raining the whole way there until just before we got there. The sun was out there and a big rainbow over the buildings and it was perfect! They dried off a table for us outside and we had a lovely sunset view while eating. The food was…just okay unfortunately. We are finding that a lot of places here don’t really use salt for some reason. Like everything would be way better if they added just a touch of salt, but instead most things are kind of bland. It is odd.

    We had gotten this typical Tuscan bread to try yesterday and we toasted it up this morning and were so disappointed! Somehow the typical bread is just flour water yeast - no salt! Which…I don’t understand. Apparently forever ago salt was taxed so the bakers stopped using it and never started again, but bread is just infinitely better with salt! You need salt! I saw someone posted asking if this no salt bread was something people actually eat or a prank played in tourists and people were like no, we eat it! Once you get used to no salt it is delicious! I…I don’t get it. You don’t use a ton of salt in bread, just a little bit and it makes a huge difference! Even the bread we had this morning in town didn’t have salt on, but definitely wasn’t unsalted completely, but it would have been better with a bit of salt in top. We did have really good food on Elba (everything was better in Elba!) and that one little Vegan restaurant, but everything else needed a bit of salt (and they don’t have salt at the table to add your own). It is so strange. It’s not like I want super salty food or something, I just want the food seasoned! I still can’t believe their normal bread doesn’t use salt!    Weiterlesen

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    Tag 14

    San Gimignano Hike

    8. Mai in Italien ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C

    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!    Weiterlesen

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    Tag 14

    San Gimignano Part 2

    8. Mai in Italien ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C

    There were lots of places in town to walk up on the city walls, or their towers, and look out over everything which I always enjoy. It was a pretty nice day especially since it was raining where we were when we left the house this morning. We did get done bread from a bakery while wandering and it was the best we have had outside of Elba, though it still wasn’t as amazing as it should be! The courtyard of the Duomo has this art exhibition going on which was fun and the old church bells on display. Even though it was a pretty small town we still spent all morning wandering around there.Weiterlesen

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    Tag 14

    San Gimignano Part 1

    8. Mai in Italien ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C

    Today we got up and headed to San Gimignano, the town of towers! So apparently there used to be 72 towers in this tiny town as all the rich families built their own tower to show how rich they are, but most were destroyed during WWII, though 14 still remain! So it was fun wandering the town with all these towers everywhere.

    It was also market day and I had read somewhere that it was a food market today, but it was just a normal market with a mix of things. I did find a porcelain bowl that I loved and had to bring home with me! It is a small town so the market was pretty small, but it was fun wandering. I don’t think Raymond liked the town as much as I did as he said it was a lot of tourist shops, which it was, but nicer ones that I liked so I didn’t mind ;)    Weiterlesen

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    Tag 13

    Monteriggioni

    7. Mai in Italien ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C

    After Siena we headed over to Montereggioni, a super tiny little castle town. Being generous it might take a minute to walk from one end of town to the other, and maybe 15 seconds to go the width of it. There were three streets so we walked them all and spied on the views which were meh, then back to the car. We could have walked on the a section of the city wall, but it cost €5 which seemed way too expensive for what it was. I honestly don’t see how it would have taken us more than 5 min to walk the whole thing including stopping every 2 feet for a photo. So we skipped that and were back to the car 15 min after we left. The parking cost too much too…when we were walking around Raymond was like that tiny town with the Vegan restaurant felt like a town…this feels like a tourist trap. I was like that’s cause it was a town and this is a tourist trap! So i would not come back here again as it was nothing special and only for tourists (though a pilgrimage route does go through there!)Weiterlesen

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    Tag 13

    Siena Part 2

    7. Mai in Italien ⋅ 🌧 15 °C

    Our last stop before we headed back to the car was the Duomo which was gorgeous from the outside! So colorful which is unusual. Then it was down a very steep hill to the car (there were escalators we took up to the top this morning) with some really nice views of the city and a 13th century fountain with gold fish in!

    Siena was fun to wander, but not our favorite town we have visited. The buildings did seem taller than other towns, but it wasn’t as pretty overall and there were way too many people there! I was glad we were there on a weekday and not on the weekend!    Weiterlesen

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