First item on the list for the week was to make some progress with our residence papers. After trying unsuccessfully to get our Australian documents translated we headed back to the local government office, but the nice English-speaking women we dealt with before wasn’t working that day.

More exploring and organising this week. I was thrilled that four weeks, five carriers and twelve SIM cards later, we all finally have Italian phone numbers!

On Monday we woke the kids at 7am (which is about two hours later that they used to wake up in Sydney), got them dressed and fed and headed to school for their first day. After a few tears (I won’t say from whom) we said goodbye and headed to the weekly local market.

It was only a few days before the kids had to start school and we all had to begin some kind of normal routine. We decided to spend the time continuing to explore Siena and the surrounding towns. On Friday we headed to San Gimignano, about an hour drive north of Siena to see the town and (more importantly) eat more pizza.

We kicked off 2019 with another stunning Tuscan Sunrise.