Tuscany
Hey guys
I have to back track a little because i have been naughty and not really updated you guys on whats been happeneing in my hemisphere
Not last weekened but the one before me and the gals (my hosemates) left class, got on a bus to Sienna (i make this sound easy breasy but it really involved some mad and confused runing around and some rather pathetic pronouciation of italian). But thats the beauty of the Prato program you can just leave class and head on over to the tuscan country side!
Sienna was beautiful. Everywhere you looked there was scenery like you wouldnt believe and you just wanted to keep taking photos! And shop! THe shops were so cute and to be really honest we were rather bad because between taking photos and stopping at pretty shops we kinda only went inside one tourist place - a church. but it was a pretty funky church cos it had the relics (actual human head and thumb) of St Catherina! I dont know what the politically correct thing to say might be but it was creepy and cool! Later at night we had Gillatie and sat at one of the most beautiful piazza the world has probably seen
The next day we headed of to San Giminianco. Its another little town with a town hall tower that we climbed. The stairs were pretty scary and we took some amazing shots. its really hard to capture on camera the beauty of places like that. We also went to the ruins and took some more photos and scampered back to Sienna for some shopping. very bad - but i would like to take this moment to say that i didnt do any actual shopping i was there for moral support!! This was followed by more gillatie and piazza (square) chilling!
THe next day we went to Assisi and it had the most beautiful church i have ever seen. The Church held the remains of St Augustine and it was elumniated with candles that gave it a haunting yet serence feel.I felt i could be there forever - assisi is like that - people do go there for spiritual reasons and i for one am not surprised. I watched a sunset over the hills and it was so lonely and beautiful all at the same time. After that we trecked up to the hill top castle at night and it was the highlight of my trip so far: as far as the eye could see there was little towns below twinkling and shinning with night lights. and then out of no where there was fireworks but we were actually seeing the fireworks from higher up so it was about looking down onto fireworks! I have never had that perceptiuon. it was amazing and so so cute! Then we found a person sized hole in the castle walls and before anyone could really think about what we should do i jumped in and then the other gals had to follow. it was so funny cos we being lil law nerds on the inside were in hysterics about °illegality and trespassing° and terrified that the police/guards were going to come and release the hounds on us. I guess its hard to describe moments like that but so far Assisi is the only place i would really defiantely love to come back to sometime in my life in Italy.
Tuscany is so beautiful. if you like things to be manageable and you like things to be quaint and your scenery to be brethtaking! you cannot cannot miss Tuscany
Oendrila
I have to back track a little because i have been naughty and not really updated you guys on whats been happeneing in my hemisphere
Not last weekened but the one before me and the gals (my hosemates) left class, got on a bus to Sienna (i make this sound easy breasy but it really involved some mad and confused runing around and some rather pathetic pronouciation of italian). But thats the beauty of the Prato program you can just leave class and head on over to the tuscan country side!
Sienna was beautiful. Everywhere you looked there was scenery like you wouldnt believe and you just wanted to keep taking photos! And shop! THe shops were so cute and to be really honest we were rather bad because between taking photos and stopping at pretty shops we kinda only went inside one tourist place - a church. but it was a pretty funky church cos it had the relics (actual human head and thumb) of St Catherina! I dont know what the politically correct thing to say might be but it was creepy and cool! Later at night we had Gillatie and sat at one of the most beautiful piazza the world has probably seen
The next day we headed of to San Giminianco. Its another little town with a town hall tower that we climbed. The stairs were pretty scary and we took some amazing shots. its really hard to capture on camera the beauty of places like that. We also went to the ruins and took some more photos and scampered back to Sienna for some shopping. very bad - but i would like to take this moment to say that i didnt do any actual shopping i was there for moral support!! This was followed by more gillatie and piazza (square) chilling!
THe next day we went to Assisi and it had the most beautiful church i have ever seen. The Church held the remains of St Augustine and it was elumniated with candles that gave it a haunting yet serence feel.I felt i could be there forever - assisi is like that - people do go there for spiritual reasons and i for one am not surprised. I watched a sunset over the hills and it was so lonely and beautiful all at the same time. After that we trecked up to the hill top castle at night and it was the highlight of my trip so far: as far as the eye could see there was little towns below twinkling and shinning with night lights. and then out of no where there was fireworks but we were actually seeing the fireworks from higher up so it was about looking down onto fireworks! I have never had that perceptiuon. it was amazing and so so cute! Then we found a person sized hole in the castle walls and before anyone could really think about what we should do i jumped in and then the other gals had to follow. it was so funny cos we being lil law nerds on the inside were in hysterics about °illegality and trespassing° and terrified that the police/guards were going to come and release the hounds on us. I guess its hard to describe moments like that but so far Assisi is the only place i would really defiantely love to come back to sometime in my life in Italy.
Tuscany is so beautiful. if you like things to be manageable and you like things to be quaint and your scenery to be brethtaking! you cannot cannot miss Tuscany
Oendrila
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