15/10/2010 Siena

We've been very bad backpackers - taxi from the station to the hotel and taxi again from the hotel to the (nearer) bus station. Having a coffee at Piazza del Campo (twice) cannot be called economizing either. And the shops haven't failed to catch our attention. Still, we have been fairly disciplined, we had a pizza slice for dinner (2.50€) and bought lunch at the supermarket today (2.90€). We were hoping to stop this inadequate spending tomorrow, and instead feel worthy after a hard day of olive-picking, but we've just been told Sunday is rest day, and the idea of spending the day amidst olive trees with not much to do is not exactly appealing. This is the time when I wish we'd brought a car - we have to depend on someone else if we want to go a bit further afield to take us and bring us back. We're off to the supermarket now (driven there by Ralf) to stock up on wine for the week - might be our only release from Deutchsland.