COVID strikes...

 I don't have any special memories of the two towns we visited on day 6.  Siena has a 13th century marble cathedral and San Gimignano is famous for having a lot of towers, surviving from the middle ages.  Looking back, I realize that this was the first day I exhibited symptoms of COVID, but I just thought I was very tired from the previous days of site seeing.  All I wanted to do was sit around and eat gelato.  I highly recommend the lemon which I got every time but once.  My travel buddy convinced me that I really should try another flavor so I got mocha once and promptly dropped a glob on my white jeans.  So much for variety.  Did I mention that the temperature was near 90 each day?  My big brimmed sun hat, that I bought in Spain many years ago, came in very handy indeed. But enough complaining.  We had a nice air-conditioned bus for our rides from town to town and saw so much that was beautiful everywhere.

The bell tower of the marble cathedral.  If it leaned it would be as famous as Pisa's tower.  The details were exquisite.

A view of part of the front with the sun lighting up the gold leaf triangles.

One of the many towers of San Gimignano, one of the last remaining walled cities in Italy.

Sometimes looking down a side street (or alley) reveals surprising layers.