Day 8…Venice or Bust…or Florence Clean Clothes and Souvenirs We awoke in San Donato, ate one last breakfast in the cellar, said our goodbyes and called our trusty chauffeur, Claudio. The plan was to get a lift into San Gimignano and bus back to Florence the way we had come 3 days before. From there we were to carry on our Italian tour with three nights in Venice. From the start things started to go wrong… Claudio informed us that today, being a public holiday (Labour Day), the local busses from San Gimignano to Poggibonsi might not be operating. When we got to San G, we found that he was right. Oh well, all was fine (so we thought), as Claudio agreed to bring us to Poggibonsi, where we would get the train to Florence, and
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