This was taken from our hotel window in Sienna. We had such luck here. We booked the hotel upon arriving at the train station and realized once we go there that we were staying in the Civetta neighbourhood – the winning contrada of this year’s Palio race. The hotel was old, gorgeous and large – rated 3 stars but priced at 1 (because it didn’t have air-conditioning)! These moments of serendipity happened throughout our time in Italy. More on Sienna in the coming days!