Italy4 min read2016
Dateline June 5, 2016, Pisa, Siena and Cinque Terre
With Florence as our base, we took three days out into Tuscany and beyond. We went to Pisa to see the leaning tower everyone told us to skip, and were glad we didn't; to Siena and its astonishing shell-shaped square, just ahead of the afternoon rain; and to the cliffside fishing villages of Cinque Terre on a perfect blue day. Along the way a laid-off engineer turned taxi driver, and two young Chinese executives, taught us a thing or two about the world.
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