We will arrive in Siena on a Friday (October 17th) for 3 nights. We have Rick Steves book so we do plan on seeing the town in the evening. He also notes that you can see most of the major sites in half a day. We will not have a car but we would like to partake in some wine tasting. So the first 2 questions:
1) Has anyone done any of the wine tours with the Tuscany Wine School? Or is there another Wine tour you could recommend? I undestand we can take a day tour or a two hour tasting at the School in Siena. We prefer to do a tasting with a group (i.e not a private tour for just the 2 of us)
2) Has anyone done any bike tours (does not have to include wine)? Either with a guide or just renting a bike for a few hours?
We will go from Siena to Florence for 2 nights. We will arrive in Florence on a Monday (I know most of the major sites will be closed). On Tuesday we plan on going to the Accademia and the Uffizi Gallery. We will make reservations ahead of time and will do an audio tour (no tour guides). In Rick Steves book he states that most tourist spend about 2 hours in the Uffizi...I know this is all subjective. I understand that the Accademia is not very large and "David" is the main attraction. So my next 2 questions are:
3) Would 2 hours be long enough in the Accademia?
4) We plan on doing one museum in the morning and one in the afternoon (If reservations work out). Should we go as early as possible to one and as late as possible to the other to avoid crowds? Would it matter which one we scheduled in the morning? afternoon?
Thank you in advance for your time!