A Morning of Splendor!

Here's the deal.
When you wake up ...

And the first thing you see is this on the ceiling.....

You can't help but suddenly be transformed into this! .... and you're ready for a day of GLORY!

So you must head out into the loveliness of San Gimignano for a morning walk.  And for the most part, you are alone.  You see, most tourists treat San Gim as a day trip from Siena or Florence.  I stayed here a couple of nights just so I could have the city to myself in the morning and evening.  And it is a treat indeed... wandering the labyrinth, all the darling doorways, little kitty cats and chirpers....

The doors are seriously no taller than 5 feet.

And the cats are all thin and kind of scary....

And that is just what you need to make you turn in the other direction and head to San Agostino to look at the frescoes that tell the story of Saint Augustine:

And what a good little student he was: