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restaurant and went CRAZY - zucchini and carrots and lettuce and tomato salad and watermelon .. the first vegetables since Madrid and before that, Tours. We certainly were pleased. We saw half the Uffizi Gallery (not quite as much of an "all our old stuff" collection with nothing left out as the sculpture in the Vatican museums), ..some really beautiful sculptures and MANY medieval and Renaissance paintings.

DAY 21: Got out early to catch a train for Sienna that turned out to run only on festival days. So we went to the academia and saw the gallery including Rape of the Sabines, several Michelangelos and David. He's even more impressive in person than anything else has been and really [been?] a basis for comparison for the statues seen since then, and he just keeps getting better and better in comparison. I [wanted?] to bring him home but Jules wouldn't let me. We finally got to Sienna and sat around quite awhile, missing the train we'd planned to take back and getting up to leave just as the pre-race parade started. Saw some of it, couldn't find our way out and finally asked for help and were directed to apparently the only exit which was filled by people about 8 abreast coming in - anyone for swimming upstream? We [had?] 2-3 blocks to cover [along?] that edge packed by people going the other way, but we did make it. Then a mad sprint, mostly up hill, through [town?] to catch a bus and just barely catch our train to get back to the hostel before we were locked out. Whew! Who said we do anything the easy way?