Lunch and Musings

The food here is wonderful. Today we had lunch together as a class, with a family whose patriarch is writing his dissertation on Dante and who lectured on Michelangelo's Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel to us today. And then afterwards, we went to lunch together, at a restaurant that happened to coincide with the meeting of the three terzi of the city-- Città, Camollia, and San Martino.

I ended up rather on the end, to Prof. Mazzotta's left with really no one to talk to but him and a few other adults who I barely knew. Which was fine, as he is wonderful, but it would have been nice to have a few buffer friends around--there's something a bit imposing about being seated to a man as accomplished and ingenious as he.

It was one of the more delicious meals I've had here; many courses, and an overwhelming desire to take a nap, which sadly, the post-meal espresso I had sabotaged the efforts of.

I am more than half done with my time here in Siena. Yesterday, when Whim'n'Rhythm sang Livin' on a Prayer in the cloisters of San Cristoforo, I realized this. I've seen its highlights, its hidden spots, and yet I know that there is still even more to discover here-- I need more time!
Tomorrow we go to Ferrara, to see another Rival of Firenze-- we shall see what shenanigans occur.

Until then: some pictures of places around Siena:Il Duomo: the inside
A lamp in the Onda Contrada