Logic Matters 2008-06-05

Postcard from Siena - 3

Even in rainy first light, Tuscany is beautiful, and the views from our windows remain wonderful. But yesterday started bright and dry, and we set off over the hills via Asciano by backroads to Montalcino to meet up with a friend. The sign-posting of Italian roads is characteristically awful even on major roads. And they here don't seem to have an equivalent either of the wonderful Ordnance Survey maps. So using backroads has in the past been a recipe for getting lost, getting cross, and (shall we say) disharmony in the car. But we've the use of a sat-nav system for a while. It quite unproblematically got us took us via a very circuitous route which we'd never have attempted before, well off the beaten track, over the hills south-east of Siena. I'm an instant convert: a must buy for ...

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