Tuscany # Tower of Pisa

Unreal. Incredible. Marvelous. Unique. The One. Nobody wanted to climb up, so weird ...

Tuscany # Palio di Siena

Version française ...

The Palio is a horse race that is held twice a year on the main square of Siena, il piazza del Campo. Ten horses and riders, bareback and dressed in the appropriate colours, represent ten of the seventeen city wards. The riders are allowed to use their whips for disturbing other horses and riders - oups. The winner is the first horse to cross the finish line after running three laps, with or without rider - oups again. We have been fortunate to attend two trial races of the Palio di Siena. It was fantastic to take part in this event in the middle of people from Siena, noise, songs and colors ! But no enough to wait 5 hours yesterday to attend the real race ... 

Wrong way.

Ok ... we'll manage ...

Oatmeal soda bread

Lire la version française ...

Yes, it's still a souvenir from our journey in Irland this spring ...

I almost thrown this bread away when it was raw. Because the dough just looks like ... nothing ! I wondered if it was worth heating my oven. It would have been a pity, this delicious bread is very different from the one I'm used to eat : very dense, quite dark, no rising, and especially satiating. Two slices are enough from breakfast until 3pm (interesting when I'm discovering streets and treasures from Paris)

The taste of this bread will depend on the oatmeal you. The first one was sweet, while the second was more neutral. So you can adjust the sweetness by adding honey, sugar or treacle. The main difficulty is to think soaking oatmeal with buttermilk a day ahead, too too hard ...