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Tuscan wine paradise, Greve, Italy travel blog

Tuscan wine paradise

A travel blog entry by vine_hooligans

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... of wine on offer was incredible and you could easily have spent an entire just in this store trying wines. I would strongly suggest anyone visiting Greve should spend a few hours and euros here.   All I can add at this stage was that the day was an ...

Lazy day..., Greve in Chianti, Italy travel blog

Lazy day...

A travel blog entry by bugm

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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 ...

Rain, rain, rain..., Greve in Chianti, Italy travel blog

Rain, rain, rain...

A travel blog entry by bugm

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... ate a wonderful lunch (tortellini in cream sauce with pruscuttio, wine and cheese), and sat out more hard rain. Then we drove back to Greve, hitting a vineyard on the way back, and on to the Internet Pointe... I still cannot put my pix up, they won't let ...

Strange wine tasting!, Greve in Chianti, Italy travel blog

Strange wine tasting!

A travel blog entry by bugm

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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 ...

Death Hike in the Cinque Terra, Greve in Chianti, Italy travel blog

Death Hike in the Cinque Terra

A travel blog entry by bugm

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Getting behind on my entries again... I will have to sit down with my and Erics journals when we get home (which is only in 2 days, sigh...) and put the pictures up and complete the adventures! Well, we are down to 8 people now, Pam left for Spain ...

Greve in Chianti, Greve, Italy travel blog

Greve in Chianti

A travel blog entry by gojenngo

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... there that I can't describe. I would love to be able to tell you what it is, believe me, but I can't.      Greve in Chianti was/is a very small town; we were dropped off in the middle (?) - it is a very small town. I'll put it this ...

R and R in the Castle, Greve in Chianti, Italy travel blog

R and R in the Castle

A travel blog entry by bugm

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

Last Day in Italy..., Greve in Chianti, Italy travel blog

Last Day in Italy...

A travel blog entry by bugm

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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, Greve in Chianti, Italy travel blog

Pisa today

A travel blog entry by bugm

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... to this online journal! We have been busy today, at least. Eric and I woke up at 5:45 am and took the bus to Greve, then to Florence, then the train to Pisa! Toured around in the blazing heat (yes, it finally stopped raining!) and met up with Pam, ...

The first Wine Festival, Greve in Chianti, Italy travel blog

The first Wine Festival

A travel blog entry by bugm

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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!, Greve in Chianti, Italy travel blog

Settled into the Castle!

A travel blog entry by bugm

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... '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 ...

Supertuscan to the rescue., Greve, Italy travel blog

Supertuscan to the rescue.

A travel blog entry by joeljenaturner

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... what better place to kill time then in the gorgeous country side in Chianti. We had to pass through Florence to get to Greve, a little district very famous for the best of Chianti wines. In Chianti, you can safely say that everything is all about wine. ...

Ahh the Tuscan Hills, Greve, Italy travel blog

Ahh the Tuscan Hills

A travel blog entry by mikelis

Hmm to escape the city and head for the real Italy. After seeing everything we wanted to see of Florence in a day we headed off to the Tuscan Country Side to Greve. We got up early, checked our luggage at the Florence Train Station and got a bus ...

Greve in Chianti, Greve in Chianti, Italy travel blog

Greve in Chianti

A travel blog entry by chris_paul

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Hi from Tuscany and Umbria, Now this is the life and I dont think we will come home. Each day a new experience. Doing lots of travelling to numerous towns and they are all different. The countryside is just beautiful and when you say picture postcard ...

Monterosso to Greve, Greve, Italy travel blog

Monterosso to Greve

A travel blog entry by chris_paul

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... later and I think 300 steps plus more but it was worth it. The view was great. Couldnt walk next day. Arrived in Greve yesterday. Staying at a rather quaint castle on top of the world. The view is fabulous. We can see all of Chianti The view hasnt ...

Life in Chianti, Greve in Chianti, Italy travel blog

Life in Chianti

A travel blog entry by alanjgreenhalgh

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... travling up a very winding road that continued to rise and rise and rise. Laura took some wonderful and spectacular photos. Then back to Greve, where we checked into our hotel. The hotel is lovely, on a very nice and large piazza with many shops and wine ...

Wine country, Greve, Italy travel blog

Wine country

A travel blog entry by travelbot

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... we went to another hilltop town that was dating to the 8th century.  A little hamlet that is the last untouched hamlet in Italy.  It is amazing to think the we were walking on the cobble stones of a little village that was built 1300 years ...

Under the Tuscan Sun, Greve, Italy travel blog

Under the Tuscan Sun

A travel blog entry by ironchefmeister

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... a little garden out back with a table.  Greve is the main town in a valley of the Chianti wine region, that's why it's called Greve in Chianti.  There are big hills all around and it seemed like any land that didn't have a house on it (which was ...

Last Day in Tuscany, Greve, Italy travel blog

Last Day in Tuscany

A travel blog entry by ironchefmeister

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... we still had cheese left over.)  We mixed it up today though and had our picnic at a park down the road along the Greve river, which is a tiny fast moving river that goes right through town.  After lunch we played frisbee in the park for quite a ...

Tour De Tuscany, Greve, Italy travel blog

Tour De Tuscany

A travel blog entry by ironchefmeister

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... were super nice bikes, luckily.  There is a small castle town at the top of a hill right down the road from Greve called Montefiore.  I don't know if starting our bike ride up a super steep winding road was the best idea (we definitely had to ...

A drive through the hills, Greve, Italy travel blog

A drive through the hills

A travel blog entry by bswadd

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... Val di Pesa had hilltop prominence, Impruneta had a circus in town, Castelina in Chianti had a gorgeous castle / church, Greve in Chianti had wine, picturesque surroundings and a wonderful piazza.  Many photos of delightful countryside taken today. ...

Greve in Chianti : que dire de plus, Greve, Italy travel blog

Greve in Chianti : que dire de plus

A travel blog entry by frdrick

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Apres une heure de bus dans un paysage montagneux remplis de vignoble et de plantattion d'olivier, nous somme arrive a "Greve in chianti" en toscane. Malheureusement pour nous, la saisons des visites de vignobles est terminee. Nous avons quand meme marche ...

TUSCANA - I LOVE YOU, Lamole, Italy travel blog

TUSCANA - I LOVE YOU

A travel blog entry by marrigolde

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... across the location sign that identified we were in the Region of Chianti so that made us happy, so now we followed the signs to GREVE. I guess on the map distances and not the same as reality, so what looked like maybe 15 minutes took about an hour. But ...

Florence 2, Florence (and Greve), Italy travel blog

Florence 2

A travel blog entry by barbers

Another day in Florence -- maybe out to Greve in Chianti, ...

Greve in Chianti, Greve in Chianti, Italy travel blog

Greve in Chianti

A travel blog entry by kv1982

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... seda – poole kilomeetri pärast oli mäeotsas tupikus ja tuli ringi pöörata. Villa juures askeldavalt aednikult küsisin: Greve in Chianti? See seletas midagi itaalia keeles asfaldist ja vehkis käega. Pöörasime siis linna poole tagasi. Lõpuks ...

Greve / Montefiorella August 7, 2009, Greve, Italy travel blog

Greve / Montefiorella August 7, 2009

A travel blog entry by cardou123

... del Guerrino on a veranda overlooking the countryside.  antipasti, bisteca, bread soup, ratatouille, pasta w/ragu (boar) and wine.  Went into Greve to go to larger grocery store, but once again, timed it wrong (closed).  So went to smaller market, then ...

22/9 Wednesday Greve, Chianti, Greve, Italy travel blog

22/9 Wednesday Greve, Chianti

A travel blog entry by mbg

... and certainly not poor enough to miss a day in Tuscany country. Walked to the station to catch another Sita bus, this time to Greve in the heart of Chianti, wine country. Bus was rushing even though we weren't in Hurry ourselves, over good roads spoiled ...

Wine tasting - Chianti style, Greve, Italy travel blog

Wine tasting - Chianti style

A travel blog entry by johnhadfield

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After a big day yesterday we did not venture far, especially as it was a public holiday. In the afternoon we drove in to Greve in Chianti to see the Museo Vino, which was open in spite of the public holiday. What a find it was. We had only seen it in ...

Italy, August 3, Greve, Italy travel blog

Italy, August 3

A travel blog entry by cardou123

... a white wine sauce, and tiramusu.  All very good.  And we invited them to eat w/us.  So heard wonderful stories about Italy.  Found out some people still keep animals w/them in their house or in barns attached to house.  We were wondering where all ...

The Castles you have when you don't have castles, Greve, Italy travel blog

The Castles you have when you don't have castles

A travel blog entry by johnhadfield

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We thought we might visit a few of the local castles. Everywhere we looked there was a "Castilla" or equivalent on a sign, so we guessed that there some interesting old buildings around. With high hopes we set off for Castello di Montefiorealle. What was ...

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