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Travel Blogs from Figline Valdarno, Italy
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Molto Bene Grazie
... ; We asked Charlotte for an alternate route suggestion and we eventually got off and found our way to the little town of Figline Valdarno which is about 30km south of Florence well placed on the border of the Tuscan and Umbrian regions. We are ...
Italy Part I: The good life in Tuscany
... the beginning. From the moment I arrived, Tuscany was a great and beautiful adventure. The nearest town to the farm was Figline. Grayson meet me there at the train station but on the bus winding through the hills and scenic landscape around Castle Franco ...
What a bore!!!
Woke up Monday morning and considered our options; Rome for the day, some more Tuscan villages or a quick trip to Florence. The skies looked threatening but according to the international weather site we were due for a mild sunny ...
Kittens, villages and surprises
Today we decided to tour some of the off the tourist map towns followin gon from our experience in San Gimignano yesterday. It was a lovely pristine town but comletely surrounded, like a moat by carparks, accommodation and new roads to cater ...
Dinner With Luca and Mary
It would have been very simple to drive from Greve where we were staying to Figline Valdarno where Luca lives, but we had the whole day, and it seemed like a good idea so headed south instead following the same route as we did the day before when we ...
A Tale of Two Towns
... then arrived with Mary and we spent a few minutes with hugs and kisses for one of my best friends. We had kunch in his town Figline Valdarno at a lovelt place right on their terrace, and it started to rain, but did not dampen our enthusiasm to get out to ...
From Cioccolato to Giotto
... looking for the best of Florentines frozen delights in due course but for now it is my current favourite from our own local town Figline no less. They have many flavours and an outside seating area in the square (a new addition this year) with about ...
What came first.....shopping or the Girl?
In the chicken and the egg tradition I have been wondering about what came first. Was it the shop or the Girl? Given that nowadays the is no separation between the two, it is a symbiotic relationship of the first order. Some might say ...
The story so far
Hello's, The first chance we have had to stop and blog away. Day 1 and 2 were in transit. As much fun as it seems to sit in the same place for 20 odd hours the travel did take it's toll on weiry parents and unsuspecting children. Rome cured all jet ...
North Eastern Tuscany
... back of his hand having had family in the region. In the evening I consented to do something I had never done, driving at night in Italy. Luca assured me the ride was only 20 mins, but had about 5 tornante, which are hairpin turns. So, I steeled my nerves ...
Wedding Day...........Geez
... is; Leave I Gelsi for Figline Casa Villa Grande car park. We will then walk down to the 13th Century building where the Mayor of Figline will marry us. The ceremony will take about half an hour and Enza our host ad owner of I Gelsi will be our official ...
Tuscan Hills
... . We put Mum, Jsc, Belinda and Family on the train while their luggage traveled in our car at 170km per hour on the way to Figline Valdarno in Tuscany, where we will be for the next week and for our Wedding stay with all our family and some of our closest ...
Valieri the Pizza maestro
When K and I got married over here there was a bloke called Valieri who is a great cook in these parts. And Italians know their food really well, forget Masterchef.......its in the DNA here. Valieri cooked our wedding dinner and orchestrated ...
It's not just the Devil who wears Prada
... the worst, although today we got stumped when faced with a plate from Denmark! We had always known that while not a tourist town Figline does have a claim to fame in that Sting has a property here. Seems the GFC may have hit more widely than we imagine ...
Mr and Mrs
... our life by. One was to have serenity, two was prosperity and the other was health. He mentioned that the Town of Figline was now just 1000 years old, and she still looks gorgeous. Lunch at the Villa Casa Grande was fantastic and many courses that, ...
Freewheeling
... is pretty good too. I haven't even carried the phone with me yet but may do today as we head to the market in Figline. Yes it is Tuesday and it is Market day. Not quite the same today as when Kirra and I walked out triumphantly ...
My first week.
... 4 years to paint the ceiling and 5 years to paint the wall. Day 3 we went to the car hire to get a car to drive to Figline Valdarno. It took about 3 hours. When we got there we were amazed by the surroundings of our apartment. Day 4 was the first day we ...
Slowing down the pace a little
After most of our entourage has either been acclimatising ( LJ, Bernie, Belinda, Jamie and Zara, Terry and Bridget, and the Tambourines) or needing some relaxation time after many days of playing tourist in Big Cities; it seemed that yesterday was the ...
The morning after
... amazing than lunch because it was I Gelsi where Kirra and I first conceived the idea of doing this whole crazy wedding in Italy thing. 3 Years ago we stayed here and ate takeaway pizza on our terrace overlooking the Tuscan Hills with a bottle of ...
Back to the scene of the crime
Wow the pool felt nice. We had both been thinking about that first dip back here at I Gelsi. Its great to be back here, to see the terrace where we shared our Wedding dinner, to look over the surrounding hills and the Valley, to finally take ...
A Drive Through Tuscany
... had a large hot springs and stone houses around it. We had lunch at a place on the square and then headed northeast to Figline Valdarno where Luca met us at the hotel, and took us on a tour of his to his town complete with leaning tower. Back to ...
Day trip to Siena
... square we had grown to love even more having shared some great moments there over the week. This was to be our last night in Figline and at I Gelsi and we went to bed feeling sad that we needed to go the next morning. That sadness was to last a ...
Water bombas......Water towns
You know you are on holidays when you spend 48 hours not knowing what day of the week it is, coz it just doesn't matter!! We did however, know it was Tuesday because that was the last night for most of the other families staying here and so in ...
Hamies first week
The things I like about Italy is that it is amazing because it is so artistic and colourful. The food is OK. We eat Tortellini, I think it is better than Australian tortellini because of the sauce. I also like how they designed their buildings. In Rome I ...
Day after fireworks and
... some of us to the outlet Shopping malls. I met the Moore family group along with the "Hounds" ( Tambourine family) in the Figline main square which does more costume changes than Madonna in concert. It was sleepy in the days leading up to the ...
Protagonists.......choose your flavour
As previously stated, one lofty goal of this trip was to find the best gelato in Florence. The art of great ice cream is in the eating and all the pomp and ceremony goes out the window if the product is not amazing. Kirra has done some detailed ...
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