What Pigeons Are Used To
Things are moving fast now.
I'm writing all kinds of updates on days long past (they're for my own personal reflection, too), but homework and touristy things are taking a front seat. As it should be.
This afternoon, a group of us hopped around to museums, each about 5 miniutes after they had closed. We made it to the Museo dell' Opera del Duomo just in time, and scampered up some severely steep spiral castle stairs to the top of the unfinished facade of the "New Duomo" (history lesson: back when Siena was still one of the most populated and prosperous and powerful cities in all of Italy, it had the idea to make it's already giant Cathedral into the biggest of its time - by turning the naive into the transect and building a whole new naive that was never finished thanks to the plague. You can still see where it would've been, and the skeleton of the mighty facade still stands and can be stood upon). From here, we could pretty much see all of Tuscany as the sunset was bright pink and red. It was the first time I'd seen the city as a whole. Its small, yes, but I could pick out all the memorable spots. My apartment. The University for Foreigners. The walk up from the southernmost gate I took the first day. The Australian Pub. The San Francesco church that is a bit of a hidden treasure. The hills that lead to Florence. The train station. The grocery store. The area of the giant public market, held each Wednesday.
I've got two weekends left, the next being in Rome, the following possibly to Chinqua Terra, and then the third weekend - I come home.
I shoud send out the postcards!
Sorry the photographs aren't working.
I'm writing all kinds of updates on days long past (they're for my own personal reflection, too), but homework and touristy things are taking a front seat. As it should be.
This afternoon, a group of us hopped around to museums, each about 5 miniutes after they had closed. We made it to the Museo dell' Opera del Duomo just in time, and scampered up some severely steep spiral castle stairs to the top of the unfinished facade of the "New Duomo" (history lesson: back when Siena was still one of the most populated and prosperous and powerful cities in all of Italy, it had the idea to make it's already giant Cathedral into the biggest of its time - by turning the naive into the transect and building a whole new naive that was never finished thanks to the plague. You can still see where it would've been, and the skeleton of the mighty facade still stands and can be stood upon). From here, we could pretty much see all of Tuscany as the sunset was bright pink and red. It was the first time I'd seen the city as a whole. Its small, yes, but I could pick out all the memorable spots. My apartment. The University for Foreigners. The walk up from the southernmost gate I took the first day. The Australian Pub. The San Francesco church that is a bit of a hidden treasure. The hills that lead to Florence. The train station. The grocery store. The area of the giant public market, held each Wednesday.
I've got two weekends left, the next being in Rome, the following possibly to Chinqua Terra, and then the third weekend - I come home.
I shoud send out the postcards!
Sorry the photographs aren't working.
posted by Jon at 11:49 PM
2 Comments:
i best be getting my post card, and dont forget about the coke bottles either
luv always - you know who
see you need my comments, i am the only one that cares
you know who -
ps did you get the latest package from seattle?
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