A Blustery Day in SienaThe short route to Siena took us through narrow dirt paths cut between the vineyards of the Trantino property, then opened onto a paved road that shot straight toward the ancient city. The traffic was light but picked up a bit as we neared Siena, and we negotiated the traffic circles and blinking traffic lights with increasing delays.
Getting to Siena is easy; getting around in it is another thing. The old part of the city is well over a thousand years old and the streets were designed to handle only pedestrian traffic, and much less of that, in fact. Comfortably sized avenues often narrowed as they got closer to the center of town. Some thinned down so much that you suddenly find yourself stopped, squeezed between imposing walls on either side, impossible to move f
