We walked about the old city for an hour so, stopping by the Piazza del Campo for a bit. Alas, the city was over-run with high school field trips, Italian mostly , but also from as far away as Spain and the Netherlands. As is nearly always the case, everywhere but France, the kids were not paying the least attention to the city, the artifacts, the buildings, the art.... We tired of all this and were soon ready to move on.
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| Us, there |
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| In a music center of some sort |
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| Sic transit, Gloria: now an investment bank |
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| Restaurant over-reach |
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Policeman telling tourists it is not permitted to sit on the Piazza; his back turned
to the 25,000 high school students who are lounging in every manner in the
Piazza |
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| Famous scene |
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| Part of the Piazza |
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| You can still ride in and hitch up in Siena |
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| Moving on |
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Parking has always been an issue for us at Siena, but here we at last found a
place that was secure and also within 600m (they said) of the city's portal and
escalator, right nearly straight up to the Duomo; the site is reputed to be quite
noisy, but we did not find it so; other campers included French, Netherlandish
and Italian |
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