San Jim and Yano or should I say San Gimigniano

Allllrighty then. Another cool hill town from like a zillion years ago. San Gimigniano is one of the most visited hill towns in Italy. One thing that seems to happen to us everywhere we go here in Europa is that people constantly stop us to tell us how happy they are that Barack Obama was elected President of the United States. They say, "He is President of the WORLD!" I am getting pretty tired of this so when some pointy shoe wearin, scarf tied in a knot sportin, Italian Stallion wannabe ma fa told me Obama was the President of the World, I grabbed him by his sickly little Tuscan neck and told him, "He's ours, not yours. You want one, get your own!" Was that wrong?










Rick Steves, though, says his favorite hill town in Toscano is Voltera, partially because of a really nutty wine tasting place called La Vena di Vino. www.lavenadivino.com. So, if Rick told us to go, we go. And we went. We tasted the wine, the fromaggio, the prosciutto, I (Jim) fondled the many many braziers hanging from the ceiling. It was good.