Le Bilodole Arezzo
loc.Cincelli, 11 Arezzo, Tuscany, 52100 , Italy
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Frescobaldi Wine Tour/Class Field Trips
... and every store location has a diamond studded tie that goes for about 200,000 euro!
My professor for my Family Business in Italy course this semester is a part of the 30th generation in the Frescobaldi family business (700 years). Her dad is actually the president of the company! The family owns 9 estates in total throughout Tuscany, and we were lucky enough to have her take us to two of them!
Of the two estates we visited, Castello di Pomino specialized ...
Cooking School of Siena di Lella Cesari Ciampoli
During our visit to the town of Siena we also had our second cooking school lesson. This time our lesson was with cookbook author and chef Lella Cesari Ciampoli. She brought a wealth of cooking knowledge to us through an English translator. A full meal ...
What An Afternoon
... trip through a completely different part of the country to anything we had seen thus far.
Our final stop before heading home was the city of Siena, they tell you in the guide books to not drive into Siena because driving is a liabilty being the wise individual that I am I didn't listen. Well it is with good reason they give that piece of advice, what a zoo!
In the end we actually came up with a pretty desireable parking spot, thank goodness for the smart ...
Roma, plus sunshine in Tuscany
... big Mall was on the other side of Florence(about 100 k’s away) so it was back on the Autostrada for us. It was a good time out from sightseeing, and we managed to spend some money so it was worth the drive. I checked out a big electronics shop, and things seem to be the same price here in Euro’s as they are in NZ$, so no Iphone or Ipad for Andy (maybe in Hong Kong).
On the way home we took a short detour(ended up being quite long detour ...
The First Weekend
... lunch since the center doesn't serve lunch on the weekends, and the restaurant we went to called Roggi's was really good! (I don't think I'm going to find any food here I don't like, I even tried some fish and it wasn't THAT bad). We also ventured down to the Co-op which is like the grocery store here only to find out it was closed and we had hiked to the bottom of the hill for no reason... but its ok we needed to walk off all the food we had eaten earlier!
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