Italy: Siena
We took a day-trip to Siena during our stay in Tuscany; it's a 1-2 hour drive from Chianti (along windy mountain roads). Siena is a beautiful, medieval-looking town; a walled city. There's plenty of great shopping and food. There are a ton of windy little alleyways; it's fun to wander through them and just explore.
Wandering through Siena, you'll see plenty of classic scenes like laundry drying outside the window.
Here's the honey navigating (you will need a map in Siena):
We used our Slow Food guide again to find a lunch place tucked in a little alley, called Ristorante Grotta Santa Caterina da Bagoga.
Bagoga is the nickname of the owner, when he was a jockey (yeah, the kind that ride horses). Due to an injury he was forced to quit the jockey life and follow his passion for food. Indeed, the food was great (see cheese example, below). I preferred not to order the "typical" prix fixe menu (sounded kind of touristy), and ordered a la carte.
Siena, like Rome, has plenty of public drinking fountains and water spigots. I came across these guys rinsing off their afternoon produce purchase - just thought it was too perfect to miss a photo.
Next up, Naples!
Bagoga is the nickname of the owner, when he was a jockey (yeah, the kind that ride horses). Due to an injury he was forced to quit the jockey life and follow his passion for food. Indeed, the food was great (see cheese example, below). I preferred not to order the "typical" prix fixe menu (sounded kind of touristy), and ordered a la carte.
Siena, like Rome, has plenty of public drinking fountains and water spigots. I came across these guys rinsing off their afternoon produce purchase - just thought it was too perfect to miss a photo.
Next up, Naples!
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