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A drive in the Tuscan countryside
Poppiano is a small community close to our villa.
There is a very large castle, where people live.
It is a wine making community. There are solar panels on the hillside and the wine making vats are very well hidden so as to not disrupt the beautiful landscape.
We went into Empoli for gelatto and cookies from a very nice bakery.
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From Rome to Florence to Tuscany!
We are now settled into our Villa, Casa Alina, in Ortimino just outside of Montespertoli, Tuscany. We have no wifi for the next 2 weeks of our stay so we will have to update our blog when we get to Cassis France on April 7th. We are doing great! We have a rental car and we are travelling around the countryside having a very ...
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
... kinds of poor sportsmanship and it is betted on and everything else.
Anyways, the point is that it is a very cool spot but from where we parked it looked like it would take forever to get there, with the amount of walking we have done I was being a little wimpy about another walk but we sucked it up and went. As it turned out it was the easiest City "Centro" to reach yet, we climbed one incline and then the rest was east-west on flat ground was maybe a total of ...
Day 16: Only the Good Die Young
... a place to grab lunch, we continued inadvertently returning to roads we'd been before.
The one thing Stephano told us not to miss was a pastry native to the city called a richiella. Naturally, I had to test it. As with everything else in this country, it was of course delicious. It had an almond base with a perfect balance of chewy and crumbly, if that's even possible. I think I'll probably cry when I come home to our ...


