Grosseto Beaches

This weekend we had it free! We were allowed to do whatever we wanted and we didn't have to do any homework or go to any school trips. A couple of the girls including my roommate went to Lake Como and Milan, and the rest of us stayed in Siena. Thursday we all relaxed and went home and planned on meeting at the bus station at the next morning at 9:30 to go to Grosseto. Grosseto is about an hour and a half away and is a little town next to the coast. We were planning on going to the Italian Hot Springs nearby, but there were no buses that could take us there, so we decided to take a different bus to take us closer to the beaches. It ended up being a really long bus and we had no idea where the bus was taking us! After a long drive we ended up at this deserted beach. It was beautiful and we had it all to ourselves! It was really windy and there was a lot of fog covering the water but it was so pretty! We ran up and down the beaches and took a ton of pictures. It was really fun to be away from the city and to enjoy being at the beach all alone. After a while a bunch of old men came by and were sailsurfing. They were really good and it was fun to watch them. After a couple of hours we started to get cold, and wanted to get some food. Because the beaches were deserted, there were no places to get food around that area, and had to take the bus back to Grosseto to eat. We waited an hour and a half for a bus and when it came, it almost missed us! We had to run to catch up to it. When we got to Grosseto we found this little pizza place that had huge 5 euro pizzas. We were so hungry that we all ordered our own pizza and ate all of it in 10 minutes. The owner could tell we were a bunch of little american students, so he started speaking in gibberish with his tounge sticking out pretending like he was mentally ill. He thought it was really funny and kept messing with us. After our food, we were so tired, so we came back to Siena. That night my host mom had made pizza and I was already sick from eating an entire 14" pizza by myself. I ate it though and we got to talk a little bit more than we usually do. It was a fun day, and the next day I stayed in Siena and me and two girls studied for school, watched an American Movie and got lunch together. It was really nice. I also got to skype with mom and Dad! Love you :)