Oct 2, 3, 4 Free Weekend

This weekend was one of our free weekends. I decided I wanted to stay in Montepulciano that weekend and try to do some of the local things we just didn’t seem to have time for during the school week and because we were going to so many other places on the weekend. We knew there was a bus every Friday morning that went to Pienza, a town about 20 minutes from us that is known for their Pecorino cheese- made from sheep’s milk. We walked down to the bus station to buy our tickets and get on the bus, we were trying to figure out which bus was ours when a local at the bus station asked if we were going to Siena, we said no, Pienza. At this moment it took off running back through the bus station and to the front parking area after a moving bus, without thinking I took off running after this man and the bus. I am not sure when the man stopped running but when I got to the door of the bus as it waited to turn out of the packing lot we (myself and two of my roommates Kate and Emily) started yelling Pienza and pointing at our tickets, the bus driver opened the door and everyone was laughing and speaking Italian, who knows what they were saying about us! Hehe After arriving in Pienza we went to their Friday market, toured the small tuscan town and luckily decided to wait about twenty minute sooner at the bus stop than the bus back was supposed to arrive because it showed up fifteen minutes early! I’m not sure we ever really figured out those buses. We spend the rest of the afternoon spending time in our own town. We took some great photos from the top of the Communale (the main building in Piazza Grande) and made a nice dinner in our apartment! Saturday we continued are tour of our own town with a guide book to the art and architecture that we had found in our apartment. As we walked through town other students from our group found us and would join in for the tour. We had an early dinner at an outdoor place where we watched the sunset over the tuscan landscape. Later that night we had a few glasses of wine at one of our favorite hang out spots, Francesco’s Wine Bar and later moved on to drinks at another one of our hang out places, Sax’s Wine Bar.