May 2019: Tarifa, Spain
Once again the calendar rolls over to a new month and once again I’ve updated the header image on this website. For the month of…
Once again the calendar rolls over to a new month and once again I’ve updated the header image on this website. For the month of…
The next morning we packed our bags and then went out for breakfast at a nearby pastry shop called Nannini. I don’t remember what the…
Continue reading → Siena 2018: Breakfast Pastries at Nannini
For dinner that night we were having a little trouble deciding where to go. If the weather had been better we might have splurged on…
Continue reading → Siena 2018: Dinner at Antica Trattoria Papei
As part of your entry into the Siena Cathedral Museum you can step out onto the unfinished new front facade of the church, called the…
We stepped out of the cathedral to find the rain was still coming down, but we didn’t have to go far to reach our next…
From Siena my parents and I took a bus through the rainy Tuscan hill country back to Florence and there we boarded a train headed…
Connected to the main part of the Siena Cathedral is the Piccolomini Library. This room has choir books lining the walls at eye-level and higher…
I’ve had the privilege of traveling to Paris twice in the past—first in 2012 and again in 2015. Both times I visited Notre Dame Cathedral…
When you step inside the Siena Cathedral one of the first things that will probably catch your eye are the mosaics on the floors. These…
The Siena Cathedral is conveniently only about 500 feet (152 meters) from Il Campo and although the cathedral is at the top of the hill…