This blogpost should have been published waaaaaaaaayyyyy sooner, but somehow it was still only saved as draft and not published. Well, better late than never:
No plan without changes
As you may have noticed we did not deviate that much from the original plan during the first week, however we could not have ended our holiday further from expectations like we did in the second part.
Why?
We are completely incapable of lying on a beach...
Tuscany: S. Giminano, Siena, Firenze, Cecina
After having driven down to San Giminano, we found a nice campingplace, nice tree cover (quite a neccesity in the burning sun even in September!) and the promise of a swimming pool.
After a quick tent setup we explored San Giminano that evening. Too bad the rabbit that Michiel had for dinner turned out to be quite the escape artist as it leaped back out at night.
Siena is an intriguing city, built on hills you find yourself in a big square at one moment and lost in narrow alleys at the next. We were also quite intrigued by the colours, lanterns and flags that mark each different quarter in the city.
Firenze is a classic, whith the highlight that we got away with not having enough cash to buy 2 icecreams by being able to pronounce "nocciola" correctly in italian (and some female charm off course...Grazie. Prego)
After 3 cities in 2,5 days I was fried and ready for some pool-side action. Put on the bikini, hiked to the pool which was luring me in... Only to discover that the fence was locked. Turns out that after September 1. Albeit being over 30degrees outside, the "season" is over and thus the communal pool closed.
Bummer.
Off season or not, I was still melting away and had a serious need to cool down so off we went towards the coast, as there is a swimming area that does not close at end of season: the sea:-). We spent the impressive amount of time of no less than one full day on the beach near Cecina!
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| Siena |
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| San Giminano |
After a drive through Cinque Terre (which is truly amazing!) we ended in another beach-resort. This time with yelling 14-16 year olds, too many cars and parasols all the way to the horizon.....
BAIL OUT!
Onto the highway, up north to the Italian Alps, we landed near a town called Chiavenna.
Ok, truth be told, we'd been there for 2 days a couple of years ago... So we knew there was good coffee, ice cream, supermarket and friendly people there...
From there we went out on some day-hikes, some longer than others, depending on our form of the day.
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| Fornohütte (CH) |
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| Hike to Forno glacier |
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| enjoying Alps to the MAX! |
