Un giorno del riposo

Today, half the group is in Venice and the other half is at the beach. I am going to Venice in several weeks, and rather than go to the beach I decided I would stay in town. This has been a much needed day off from everything.

I thought I might try and buy a sketch pad and do some drawing today, but I realized I have not even scouted out everything there is in the city in order to do any drawing yet! I have seen a lot, but not everything. I decided to find the fountains that Becca and I did not report on, and so I set off at ten thirty to walk around the city in search of the medieval fountains. There were five I have not seen. Four hours later, I had found three of them, and two within the first hour! So I averaged less than one fountain every hour...good navigation on my part. But they weren't put in easy places to find! In my defense as well, I paused for giant tourist pizza slices on the Piazza del Campo and read there in the shade of the bell tower, which many people gather in in the middle of the day, and then I paused again in the Orto di Tolomei and spent nearly and hour reading again. This was after an unsuccessful attempt at finding what was at that point the third fountain. I never found that one, but I did stumble on another I must say rather disappointing on on the way back from my many unsuccessful attempts!

It was still a very good day though. I saw a lot of Siena I would otherwise never have seen and which many tourists probably almost never see.

Five miles and four hours later I came back to my house, which is empty until sometime tomorrow except for me because my family is off on a trip and Becca is in the Venice group. Then I left to go the bookstore and I returned with two books!

One is by an Italian author. the other is....WINNIE PUH!

also known as Winnie the Pooh.

in Italian.

Piglet is called Porcelletto.

It's awesome.