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Siena – 01/Jul/2006 00:00
If you want to understand Siena and its people, you should attend the Palio at least once in your life. The Palio of Siena is a basically a twice
yearly horse race during which the usual nightlife trinity of sex, drugs, and rock and roll is replaced by wine, drugs for the horses, and medieval songs...
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Siena – 10/Apr/2006 00:00
Take a walk around Siena and you will be amazed at every grocery store’s
insistence on displaying prosciutto (jambon), wheels of cheese, and many
other buon di dio (as the senese say), meaning “everything good there is”.
Naturally, you’ll get all euphoric and hungry.
The next logical stop for you will be a restaurant. Unless you’re accompanied
by someone who knows the town a little, however, I’d be very careful about where to go. Of course, since you’re in Siena, surrounded by Medieval Tuscan ambiance, everything will taste good, and nothing particularly bad will happen to you if you choose to eat any-old-where, but wouldn’t you rather avoid the possibility of ending up unsatisfied, torpid, and irritated with a uselessly inflated check to boot? Wouldn’t you rather have a good experience, leaving the restaurant well-fed and invigorated? (I hope this is a hypothetical question for you.)
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