Roma

Caio

We left Florence yesterday. we headed for Sienna. We had wanted to stop at a mountain top castle and as we rounded a corner there one was! Brakes screamed, horns tooted and we were off the highway and into a Tuscan back road. There in the middle of a vinyard was this magnificent walled town! It was virtually untouched by modern hands, they were still driving 2005 Porches! A few ancient steel gratings to hold up thhe unwary visitor on the walls, it was magic reeally!

I always thought of Castles as a family home thing for the rich. This was a walled town, they all were part of the programme.

We visited Sienna and didn't do it justice. what a beautiful town. Piazzas and palaces, cathhedrals and churches. It was like a Medieval town should look like before Disney world takes over! We intend to go back and give its' full due. From the weird and wonderful file. We saw Saint Catherine's (Catarina) head, perfectly preeserved in a glass case, on an alter in a church (St Catarina's wouldn't you guess) in Sienna.

Today ancient Rome. Romans and stuff. we saw ruins and ruins and ruins. God those boys could build! I think thhe backyard could do with a Forum or something I am inspired.

We went to the Colosseum today. What a great place, did you know that it had a wooden floor that was covered in sand, the latin word for sand is "Arena" well well.

We saw the Trevi fountain and a whole lot more my feet are killing me but tomorrow its' the religious thing Vatican, St Peter's St Andrew's and so forth. We cannot do it all, this we know but what we are seeing is pretty amazing stuff. We might do a "Dan Brown" tour, visit the sights in the "Angels and Demons" book!

This blog has been done with a wireless key board you have no idea how frustrrating that is!

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