The boys mess around after breakfast
A Tuscan Winery and a Trip to Siena, Tuscany, Italy - 10th June 2013
Whilst walking down the track up to Tenuta Il Palazzo, Isobel spots that a large, but unassuming, building actually contains an impressive modern winery. We're invitied in to take a tour, which passes an interesting hour or so. Then, the next day, we do a day trip to Siena and hang out in the famous Piazza del Campo and visit the also-famous stripey cathedral - the Duomo di Siena. Unfortunately, thanks to some invisible sign about parking restrictions that we didn't see, we get done by the local parking fascists, so won't be going there again.
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A view form the garden
Harry and Isobel roam around
Fred walks on a wall
One of the other apartments
Another view of the vineyards
Isobel and Fred look for ants as Harry waves
We spot loads of toadlets on the ground
Hundreds of tiny toadlets hop around on the drive
We find a winery in Il Palazzo's Cantina
The winery has a cool mobile bottling line
Brand-new oak barrels
Fred stands next to some huge magnums or jeroboams
One of the huge bottles is shown
We chat to the owner
We're surrounded by 150,000 litre tanks
The winery's collonade
Isobel carries Harry around
A million massive ants swarm around
Fred squats on the drive and looks at ants
Fred and Harry mess about
Harry on the path
Fred and his best 'beastie Boys' look
Fred's chair tries to eat him
A stripey cat has a stretch
Harry - Baby Gabey
Harry sits on the grass
Fred's on watermelon for 'breakferast'
The breakfast table
Our stripey lounge
The main piazza in Siena - Piazza del Campo
Time for food again
A couple of dudes do a spot of welding
The Duomo as seen from the main piazza
A flock of tourists
Isobel and Fred eat more gelato
Café culture in Siena
Fred runs around the piazza
A tranquil water feature
Harry goes for a stomp around too
Isobel and Gabes walk around the main square
Harry, Isobel and Fred nearly lost in the crowd
A dramatic fish-eye view of the Piazza del Campo
Another fish-eye of the piazza
Isobel embarks on a leather-goods shopping spree
A defunct fountain
A rather grand Telecom Italia phone kiosk
The very-stripey Duomo di Siena
Fred and a wall
The main entrance to the duomo
Tourist tat outside the church
Some old building is reconstructed
Isobel pushes Harry around
Cool Romanesque moasiac
The over-the-top interior of the Duomo di Siena
Fred looks at floor marbles
The duomo's organ
Looking up at the underside of the dome
Isobel hangs around as Fred draws the marbles
More stripes
Isobel on the floor
Fred draws something else
There's some glass to see through to the vaults
Fred on some impressive tiles
Back outside in the hot sun
The over-wrought gothic façade of the cathedral
Fred shields something from the sun
Some gold on the Duomo reflects the sun
Fred stands next to a giant pizza
Harry pushes his own buggy around
Back on the Piazza del Campo
Harry has fun in a café
Harry hangs on to a chair and pauses
Phone kiosks still seem to be big in Siena
Fred pokes a municipal buggy
Fred and a wall of posters
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The boys mess around after breakfast
The boys mess around after breakfast
A view form the garden
Harry and Isobel roam around
Fred walks on a wall
One of the other apartments
Another view of the vineyards
Isobel and Fred look for ants as Harry waves
We spot loads of toadlets on the ground
Hundreds of tiny toadlets hop around on the drive
We find a winery in Il Palazzo's Cantina
The winery has a cool mobile bottling line
Brand-new oak barrels
Fred stands next to some huge magnums or jeroboams
One of the huge bottles is shown
We chat to the owner
We're surrounded by 150,000 litre tanks
The winery's collonade
Isobel carries Harry around
A million massive ants swarm around
Fred squats on the drive and looks at ants
Fred and Harry mess about
Harry on the path
Fred and his best 'beastie Boys' look
Fred's chair tries to eat him
A stripey cat has a stretch
Harry - Baby Gabey
Harry sits on the grass
Fred's on watermelon for 'breakferast'
The breakfast table
Our stripey lounge
The main piazza in Siena - Piazza del Campo
Time for food again
A couple of dudes do a spot of welding
The Duomo as seen from the main piazza
A flock of tourists
Isobel and Fred eat more gelato
Café culture in Siena
Fred runs around the piazza
A tranquil water feature
Harry goes for a stomp around too
Isobel and Gabes walk around the main square
Harry, Isobel and Fred nearly lost in the crowd
A dramatic fish-eye view of the Piazza del Campo
Another fish-eye of the piazza
Isobel embarks on a leather-goods shopping spree
A defunct fountain
A rather grand Telecom Italia phone kiosk
The very-stripey Duomo di Siena
Fred and a wall
The main entrance to the duomo
Tourist tat outside the church
Some old building is reconstructed
Isobel pushes Harry around
Cool Romanesque moasiac
The over-the-top interior of the Duomo di Siena
Fred looks at floor marbles
The duomo's organ
Looking up at the underside of the dome
Isobel hangs around as Fred draws the marbles
More stripes
Isobel on the floor
Fred draws something else
There's some glass to see through to the vaults
Fred on some impressive tiles
Back outside in the hot sun
The over-wrought gothic façade of the cathedral
Fred shields something from the sun
Some gold on the Duomo reflects the sun
Fred stands next to a giant pizza
Harry pushes his own buggy around
Back on the Piazza del Campo
Harry has fun in a café
Harry hangs on to a chair and pauses
Phone kiosks still seem to be big in Siena
Fred pokes a municipal buggy
Fred and a wall of posters