San G. the g is for gimignano

so this weekend we made a day trip over to san gimignano. its this super tiny town that is basically made for tourists, i believe one of my teachers at the dante said its too much like disenyland (perfect) so she doesnt like it very much, but it was a fun trip anyways and san g was so beautiful! seriously so stinkin beautiful. ugh, i still cant get over the beauty of that place.





so when we first got there we just walked around for a while and enjoyed looking at the tuscan countryside. we found this tower that looked over the campagna, it was magnifico. this is where we encountered a beautiful tan man who offered to take a group shot of us. oh my word was he attractive. we talked with him for a bit, found out that he was from argentine and on vacation with a tour group. he was with some friends but they went back home so he was flying solo, i could have helped him with this problem. haha.


taken by an attractive man

i heard some melodious tunes coming from somewhere and i followed my ears to the bottom of the tower where a women with flowing hair was playing italian folk music. it was pretty schveet. i love hippie crap like that. while i was in the midst of enjoying this womans sounds the attractive argentine descends the stairs and i watch him walking away wishing i could talk to him more. it is in this moment that i decide to follow him, yes thats right i tailed him with my partner in creep liz. we saw where he was headed until he disappeared around a corner, we couldnt see him anywhere. i thought i was defeated when ecco i turn around and hes right there. so naturally i go up to him and tell him we were looking for him. i then asked him if i could take a picture with him and he was so nice, he was like oh i know the perfect spot. so he takes me a liz to this knoll and we talk with him and his name is martin (really haha what with me and foreign men named martin-my rommies will know what i am referring) and hes been traveling forever and hes been to california and hes so beautiful. so anyways we took a picture and of course he wanted one on his camera too with his new friend ashley from california. he was attractive. sometimes i think that i am learning the wrong language. habla español?


this is martin.

he is so cute i had to include two pictures

after this awesome event, and lihmer judging us for our girlish nature, we went to the piazza to find some lunch. i saw this truck that was selling some panini and i think to myself this could be sketch so its probably delicious so i get into line. turns out the truck is selling pancetta toscana which is a sandwich that my teacher told me i had to try. it was an excellent decision. so good. so so so good. of course lunch would not be complete without a gelato. i ate the best gelato in san g. if i were one of the inmates on death row and i had one last request it would be to eat gelato from this shop and bath in the cannella. thats how good it was. lihmer was like losing his mind over how smooth and creamy it tasted. really he had to put his hands to his head to keep his brain inside. i tried cannella (cinnamon), coccolato bianco, and frutta della passione. my taste buds were in heaven.


this is the whole pig that my pancetta was sliced from


such a delicious sandwich


worlds best gelato!


and this would be the line to the gelateria. no joke.

some other great things happened while we there there like...


margaret getting pooped on by a pigeon. dont worry about it, thats good luck in italy.


more beautiful scenery and no im not talking about the girl in the picture.

oh also while we were in san g we saw some street preforming band comprised of a bunch of hippie youths one guy even had dreads (love it!). they were really good. the were playing this instrument called hange, kind of like a metal caribbean drum. it was really, i dont know how to describe it, light and fun sounding. idk just watch the vid i took of them. okay so i tried to upload the video but my internet just couldnt handle it. im sorry i will continue to try and post it when i can.