After finishing our cooking school, we spent a couple days in Assisi (where St. Francis was born and buried) and then a day in Siena. The day before we started our cooking class, the Palio, Tuscany’s big horse race, was run in the piazza in Siena. We actually saw some of it on TV and it looked quite spectacular. Teams wear medieaval costume and compete furiously for the honour of winning this race. Both of these little cities are beautiful and we had time to relax, catch up with washing etc. before tackling Rome.
