You guys. I’m a day late, because apparently hanging out in Tuscany is cooler than just writing about hanging out in Tuscany. So there we go.
Did I mention we rented a car? We did. That’s given us the flexibility to just kinda do whatevertf we feel like doing, which has been awesome. Anyhow, what’s my point? Yesterday we asked Google for directions to Montepulciano, and then watched it get frustrated and constantly reroute us as we only followed its every third direction. That allowed us to see some cool parts of the country we might not have seen. It also had us end up in some nice people’s back yards while they were barbecuing. They didn’t invite us in, but they were happy enough to watch us drive away.
Eventually we got to Montepulciano. I didn’t take a ton of photos of it, but it’s a really cute town and the tourist-trap-type stores are pretty high quality. One place immediately handed me a glass of wine and a half of loaf of bread to comfort me while I perused their cheese. It was awesome and I was hoping to get that kind of treatment everywhere. But I didn’t. Just at that place. So I bought 50 euros worth of cheese and crackers… ish.
We drove to Pienza, which was fine but kinda like whatever, La Foce, which is a pretty cool garden area, but the best part was certainly the drive between the two. Next up was Bagno Vignoni- a place with thermal baths that are free! There’s a picture of the thermal baths right here.
These thermal baths are certainly worth the trek
Um. Damnit. I was really looking forward to a swim, and this is what was there. The town had some other more fun looking baths, but you weren’t allowed to swim in them. But there were plenty of hotels offering swimming pools for the reasonable fee of fifteen euros. Nope. Luckily, en route to BV, we saw this in the distance.’
It’s a castley rock
Rocca d’Orcia. When I saw it I was all like omg wtf is that, so we had to check it out. Basically it’s a big old castle thing, but we could actually climb up on it. Don’t worry- theres a couple cool shots of the view down below. In unrelated news, I think I finally got the hang of pronouncing the Italian “gl” digraph.
That was followed up by.. driving home. Which was awesome. Did I ever mention I don’t have a driver’s license and I can’t actually do any of the driving? Becca thanks for me “navigating” but she doesn’t know (yet) that I’m just goofing around on Twitter and missing most of the exits. Shhh!!
Dinner was had back in Siena at a place next door to the Dream Cafe. I mention that place because 1- I don’t remember the name of the place we ate 2- that Seinfeld episode atand 3- the DC features a buffet of a variety of dishes prominently featuring chopped hot dogs. Gross. And cocktails in plastic cups. The place we ate at was next door and delicious, though it was weird because we were clearly the first customers of the day, possibly week/month. I got some Fernet and it made me miss Malort. Not that they are similar, but they’re both such fantastic digestifs. And here are some photos:
