Yesterday when we arrived we were sitting at our campsite surrounded by large campervans when another VW Bay pulled in! We were amazed and then we seen their number plate - Daryl recognised the USA plate at a glance and sure enough Larry & Loralee Brown are from the USA with their wonderful and well travelled van. What an aspiration! We must surely have a load more trips in Mildred. They have been to South America, Mexico and even up to Alaska via Canada - wow all in the 10 years they have owned their bay. We were kindly invited over for drinks/nibbles tonight - they are so like us it's amazing.
Wonderful to meet them and we hope to catch up again at Busfest. Like us they are doing a 6 month tour, but are 1 month ahead of us.
Today we visited Siena (it's been nearly 2 years to the day since we were here last) and it's still as beautiful (bella) as ever and again we were too tight to buy lunch instead settled for a gelato (ice cream) - that was still euro 6 - but oh so lovely!
As we walked thru the old town the drummers/flag wavers came thru - this happened last time to so unless we struck it lucky it was definitely a tourist thing.
Today we had our first breakdown and totally not what you would expect. On our way from the campsite I said to D, what about our bike pump? He said we are only going 7 km return we are okay. But we only got about 1.5km when we got off our bikes to cross a pedestrian crossing and when we got over it we heard this hissing sound - I thought it was a snake so jumped fair out of my skin, D looked at me and said well that was the end of the biking, we locked up the bikes and walked into town, picking them up and pushing them home on the return.
The value stem broke - and I wasn't even on it!
Not travelling far tomorrow about 40 km to San Gimignano - where we can camp 2 km from the walled village.
It's getting hot, but not complaining as its so much easier to cook outside with elec without rain.
Tomorrow is our 1 month mark - where has it gone?
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