CHAPTER 20 ITALY CONT.

Leaving Assisi we drive to the nearby hospital and the emergency room doctor (trained at Baylor University) examines Glenn. He prescribes a stronger antibiotic, and there is no charge, except for the medicine. We have supported the International Assn. for Medical Assistance to Travelers (IAMAT) for many years and carry their updated list of foreign doctors who have been trained in the US and speak English. We got the name of this doctor from the list.

We drive to Perugia and encounter heavy traffic and lack of parking; we finally find a parking spot on a street that is solidly parked. We see the Piazza 4 November, then eat lunch at the Restaurant Taverno, and when we return to the car only two cars are still parked, and both have parking tickets. We pay our fine at the post office and drive on to Siena thru pretty green country, flat at first, then some rolling hills. There are no hotel rooms in Siena, so we drive on to San Gimignano, where there are again no hotel rooms, but we get a room in a B & B outside of town.

The morning brings warm and sunny weather, so we eat breakfast outside on the terrace, and bask in the sun quite a while afterwards. The lady of the house puts our washing in her machine and we later hang it on the line to dry. We go into town and have a disappointing meal of ossobuco that is swimming in grease. We enjoy the Piazza della Cisterno and the Piazza del Duomo while the tours are inside eating. The 12th century towers are lovely!

Breakfast on the terrace is not quite as pleasant with a breeze and a weak sun. We pack and drive to Florence thru green hills with lots of vineyards and white flowering locust trees.