Greve in Chianti, Italy Travel Blogs

Lazy day...
Sep 15, 2004 (5 photos)

Tuesday... lazy day! Slept in till 10:30, then roused our lazy butts to go down to Greve to do some grocery shopping, find an internet cafe that'll let me plug in my little USB drive (no luck!), and get a train schedule (again, no luck)... well, I'm on Tim ...

Rain, rain, rain...
Sep 15, 2004 (5 photos)

Wow, we had a beautiful lightening and thunder storm last night... and the rain continues! We went to Radda in Chianti today anyhow, ate a wonderful lunch (tortellini in cream sauce with pruscuttio, wine and cheese), and sat out more hard rain. Then we ...

Strange wine tasting!
Sep 22, 2004 (3 photos)

No, not strange wines - just a strange venue! We found a funny little sign off an alley in Greve - said "Taste 100's of Wines"... hmm... intriguing! So we (Dan, Eric and I) went in. You buy a card, say, for 20 euro, and stuck it into a slot in one of maybe ...

Death Hike in the Cinque Terra
Sep 21, 2004 (5 photos)

... attendant decided to go home early or something - but fortunately Eric found a guy who rented a spot in the garage who had keys to let us out. A new meaning to "Tourist Trap"! All in all, a good day, with a killer seafood lunch in the middle. Love, Amy

R and R in the Castle
Sep 19, 2004 (5 photos)

Today Dan, Pam and Tim, and Duncan and Suzie drove to San Gimignano, and the rest of us stayed home for a little R&R...

Last Day in Italy...
Sep 24, 2004 (5 photos)

Today is our last day... I'm sad, but ready to come home, I guess... Went down to Greve for some last minute shopping and lunch at our favorite pizzaria, then back up to the castle. Later we went to the Vitticeo winery (these were my all-time favorite ...

Pisa today
Sep 21, 2004 (7 photos)

... incredible! Now it is quite late, we are in the Internet Cafe all busy emailing, and Tim has ordered us a great bottle of Chianti... so, um, I am gonna go... I am bringing home some, do not worry (can you tell I cannot find the apostrophe key?) Love ...

The first Wine Festival
Sep 12, 2004 (5 photos)

Sunday the 12th... attended our first Chianti Wine Festival today, in downtown Greve. Man, this is good stuff! As I feared, my wine tasting knowledge has made of me a snob - last time I was here I was drinking the house wine and loving it - this time I'm ...

Settled into the Castle!
Sep 11, 2004 (5 photos)

... 't do dial-up, only wireless or ethernet - it's spoiled!!). I'll try to find an internet cafe in Greve today, so I can download pix. Anyways! Got into Italy without mishap... that was the end of that! Ralph wanted to get the rental cars right away, so ...

Greve in Chianti
Apr 25, 2007

... to go as they are closing . Off to Siena tomorrow and a cooking class tomorrow night that will be interesting and to Florence on Friday will send another soon. We are still talking and the only moments are when we are in the car. Ciao for now The Ebsworths

Life in Chianti
Jan 5, 2009

... obtained our car rental, negotiated the roads between Florence and Chianti (no small feat), and wound up in Greve, the unofficial capital of Chianti. Actually we first detoured to Panzano, the town our friend Luca once lived, and about 15 miles south of ...

Just hanging out and packing
Aug 14, 2009

... easy today.  Ate leftovers.  Went for another walk.  Packed our bags.  Ate at a great restaurant in Castellini in Chianti  I had lemon/sage tortellinis - very good.  We also had a wonderful tiramasu w/strawberries and a creme ...

Tuscan bread and the Feria Cavalli
Nov 10, 2007 (1 photos)

... hours. It's a cliche, but it really does look just like the paintings from 300 years ago. Just outside Greve in Chianti, we saw a restauraunt and impulsively stopped. It was another serendipitous choice. The restaurant is L'Ancino Rosso, which is ...

Kamilas trip to Tuscany
Jun 2, 2004

will write soon

Greve in Chianti
Aug 13, 2009

... got some pastries and bread and went to lunch there - a wonderful restaurant and enoteca- where we bought a couple of bottles of Chianti wine.  I really do like the Chianti wine - and it isn't as expensive as some of the others.  We went back ...