From Siena to Rome, A.D. 927
The three pilgrims spent a night in a tavern in Siena and one in the Abbey of S. Pietro ad Mensulas at Sinalunga, where the brothers treated them as equals, although they were not tonsured. They proceeded along via Cassia, where a few days’ marches, breathing the salt air along the Apuan coast, and two nights in inns that supplied a choice of ale or wine took them farther southwards—Bishop Rhydderch avoided the wine––bringing them to Campomaggiore. There they stayed at the Abbey of St Peter and once more did not have to worry about innkeepers or infested bedding.
S. Pietro ad MensulasThey passed Lucca and its famous stonecutters’ workshops, where Hywel paused long enough to transform his black habit into yellow-powdered apparel as he silently observed the car
