Siena is much less crowded today, but there are still a lot of visitors. More than one person has told us that the local bank failed and they don't know what will happen now.
There werre thunderstorms again today. We are happy it isn't terribly hot.
We are up in the morning, breakfast at the hotel. Then, a half hour walk to the school, which is on the other side of town. Siena is built on three hills, so that means, up and down then up and down then up. (Reverse at end of day). We had two hours in language class - the photo without Donald in it is the view from my seat in class. I thought this was great -- if my attention flags, there's something interesting to looka at.
Then, we three hours on our own. We got food and drink and wandered around the streets (up and down, and up and down). The streets are narrow and traffic is minimal -- every now and then a car crawls through the pedestrians. Donal is standing where one of the city streets looks out to San Domenico, the home church of Santa Caterina (We know her as St Catherine of Siena, which happens to be the name of the parish in Martinez).
We met a staff person from the school, who took us on a tour of the Siena Duoma. See next posting for photos.
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