Counsel's Table

My favorite part of Tuscany on a trip a few years ago was Siena. Sure, Florence is nice — and who can beat the tiny hidden vineyards strewn about rolling hills (that are so much better to admire than to drive through)? But there was something ancient, warm and charming about this walled city that not only allowed me, but required me, to leave behind the van that I was unhappily and largely unsafely …