20090515 – Gimignano and Voltarra

This blog will be short because it’s late and I want to go to bed.

We got ready to ride this morning doing a loop from San Gimignano to Voltarra and back. When we go to our bicycles, it started to rain, not a hard rain but a pesky one. We decided to bag the ride and hire a couple of taxis to take us to Voltarra. We got there around 11:00 and meandered through this Etruscan hilltop town. There was a Roman theater, a duomo and an Etruscan museum. The museum had an endless collection of funerary urns, lots of coins, some jewelry and many other things. Lots of the urns were carved alabaster.

I had lunch in a cafeteria-style restaurant with John – bruschetta, lasagna and vegetables. We wandered through a park whose background was a Medici palace that has been turned into a maximum security prison. I also visited an alabaster workshop where they were making some alabaster art.

We left Volterra at 4:00 and came back to our hotel. Happy Hour was at 6:00 and dinner was at 7:30. Our restaurant tonight had us sitting outside on the terrace (the rain has stopped). The view was exceptional. I had rabbit and grilled vegetables. Both were good, especially the sauce on the rabbit.

 

Now it’s after 10:00. I’m going to post this blog and go to bed.