Saturday 7th day

Before we left our little town of Colle val d Elsa we toured the old city...yes it was beautiful as everything has been in Tuscany. We thought we had a direct route on the "autostrata" to our night's stay in Ravenna. All we needed to do was go to Bologna and then down to Ravenna on the east coast. Only 1 problem, Italian road signs that make no sense to Americans. We actually went to Modena and that was just about 25 miles out of the way, so we turned around and came back, after our lunch which was very amusing. We are in the country and go in and order 2 panini's (sandwiches). You pick your meat and cheese and it's heated and served. Of course, they speak no English and we speak very little Italian...so we order the sandwiches with Proscuitto, pecorino cheese, mozarella cheese, tomato and arugula. We get 2 sandwiches and one has tomato, arugula and mozarella....the other one has proscuitto and pecorino! We were obviously "lost in translation" because they had no idea we wanted all that on each sandwich...we had a good laugh about that before journeying on! We finally made it to our destination and toured the Byzantine town of Ravenna. The churches were filled with mosiacs depicting Biblical events. The artistry of these structures are amazing from 540 AD. We had a wonderful seafood dinner and tomorrow we leave for 2 days in Venice.