Tuscany via Bicycle

Every Thursday Saena Iulia (the school I attended for Italian language course) takes excursions (I have been blogging about the trips to the villages). Even though I am no longer taking classes, I am still taking the weekly excursions! This past week, instead of taking a short bus ride to a nearby village, the group rented bicycles and rode for about 4 hours through the nearby hills surrounding Siena. It's beautiful outside the city gates...lots of rolling green hills. Motorists do NOT respect (or have patience) for people on bicylcles, so it was a little risky and scary riding in the city, then we reached the countryside which seemed safer. This was a great workout (going up all of those hills) and it was a foggy and slightly rainy day, so at first I was freezing, then numb from the cold! We stopped in a small village for an espresso, then away we went back to Siena!