Courting a Coranary...(again!)

Greeting all. I once again address you from the bright surrounds of a dingy Florentine Internet Point. Yesterday Emma and I had a day trip in Siena! We took the train early in the morning and spent the day roaming around the city. When we arrived, Emma and I stopped for a coffee and a briochè at a local cafè... wait for the shock, it was only €2 each! Huzzah! Emma of course made a HUGE mess of her icing sugar! (Picture to be inserted soon!)

We took in various museums and churches (every Italian city has about a million of these!) as well as climbing to the top of the tallest tower in the city. It's called Torre alla Manja and it had about 400 steps (!) The passageway was tiny.. most of it could only be climbed single file and as such only 25 people are allowed up at any time! We had to wait for 30 minutes for the tower to 'empty' as it were, before we could even start climbing the thing!!

Meanwhile, in one of the churches, Emma and I were able to view the preserved finger of St. Catherine, one of the patron saints of Siena (I think..) It was all gnarly and brown and yuck! We weren't allowed to take pictures, sorry, or I could've shared this experience with you all! We unfortunately missed out on seeing her preserved head, which is also available for viewing. Most unfortunate really...

Another place we visited was Siena's Duomo or Cathedral! It was SPECTACULAR!!! The inside was SO intricately decorated it was AMAZING! The place had a very spiritual feel to which was slightly diminished by the 700 tourists that were allowed in at a time, as well as the perpectual camera flashes that went off, despite reprimands over the PA system! Haha! Well worth the visit, none the less.

I also had another embarassing moment in class on Friday when I proceeded to tell the class VERY enthusiastically that I LOVE to drink SUGAR. Yes, sugar.... I was trying to say juice, which in Italian, happen to be very similar. (Sugar is 'Zucchero' and Juice is 'Succo'). Today I had lots of fun trying to explain how to cook pasta and also the plot for 'I Am Legend' (which luckily, as the movie lacks any decent plot elements, wasn't too bad!)

Hope all of you are well. Please let me know how you're going as I love to hear what's happening in Adelaide! Feel free to flick me an email: danoir@gmail.com!