2010 Travel Advent-ures of Brammers, part 8

You can see why I failed to write these up as I was going ... quite aside from the horror of typing on the netbook, I had to get some sleep in at some point!

We ended part 7 with a large group of textile nuts about to board a bus for Siena. Forty-five minutes, and with a good view along the way, we arrived and trundled up from one of the city gates towards Il Campo. Siena is a very well preserved mediaeval city, mostly thanks to the plague having wiped out so many people in the Middle Ages that it was never again wealthy enough for a big period of rebuilding (and after the plague, there were Medici, who had a similar effect but through war and taxation rather than horrible pus-filled death.) This is a typical street:



( More Siena! Daft tales! )

2010 Travel Advent-ures of Brammers, part 8

You can see why I failed to write these up as I was going ... quite aside from the horror of typing on the netbook, I had to get some sleep in at some point!

We ended part 7 with a large group of textile nuts about to board a bus for Siena. Forty-five minutes, and with a good view along the way, we arrived and trundled up from one of the city gates towards Il Campo. Siena is a very well preserved mediaeval city, mostly thanks to the plague having wiped out so many people in the Middle Ages that it was never again wealthy enough for a big period of rebuilding (and after the plague, there were Medici, who had a similar effect but through war and taxation rather than horrible pus-filled death.) This is a typical street:



( More Siena! Daft tales! )