Monday, March 21, 2011 (Part 2)We finally found ourselves on the outskirts of Siena and heading into the city. Siena sits on the top of a hill, so we did a lot of up hill driving as we approached. Once within the old town, we had to find our hotel -- the Hotel Athena. At this point, however, the GPS failed us. It was telling us to turn when there was no street to turn onto. We turned it off.
And we discovered that we were driving very close to Il Campo -- the center of town. We were driving down narrow, cobblestoned, ancient
streets with lots of pedestrians on them. On each side of the streets were
three and four story, tightly packed row-house-type buildings.
There were few cross streets and this meant that it was very easy to lose one's sense of perspective or direction. Dad had to drive very S-L-O-W-L-Y, and we were starting to get a bit anxious. We really didn't know where we were going.
We stopped three times and asked directions of pedestrians. And we still could not find the Hotel. We even asked a policeman and he gave us the worst directions of all! Finally, finally, we found the Hotel Athens. And it's a lovely hotel. The bedrooms and
bathrooms are spacious and sunny. We are very comfortable here.
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