Greve, Italy Travel Blogs

Tuscan wine paradise
Aug 5, 2008 (12 photos)

... 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 extravagant ...

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)

... 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 me ...

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)

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
Apr 13, 2008 (10 photos)

... 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
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)

... 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, Tim ...

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 ...

Ahh the Tuscan Hills
Jun 7, 2006

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
Apr 25, 2007

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 that ...

Monterosso to Greve
Apr 22, 2007

... 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
Jan 5, 2009

... 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 bars, and ...

Florence 2
Sep 19, 2007

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

Greve / Montefiorella August 7, 2009
Aug 7, 2009

... 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 to get ...

Italy, August 3
Aug 3, 2009

... and 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 ...

Chianti Wine Tour
Mar 14, 2008

We had a wine tour today of the regions in Chianti.  This is one of the most famous wines from the Tuscany region.  We started out at 10am for about an hour bus ride.  Once we got to the vineyard, we had a tour of the "castle" which dates ...

Day 5 - Greve & Verrazzano Winery
Oct 5, 2007 (14 photos)

  Our day began with an unexpected stop to the little town of Greve on our way to our second winery. It was a charming little village in the Tuscan hills. As do most Italian towns the streets were filled with little shops on smooth cobble stone ...

Chianti Region
Oct 23, 2004

We traveled to the Chianti region and enjoyed wonderful wines paired with food.

Pizza, Wine & Cappucino!!!
Aug 10, 2008 (3 photos)

... , but unfortunately it was closed.  I rushed to get there before noon because it is uncooth and weird to drink cappucino in Italy after noon.  They think the milk just sits in your stomach the rest of the day and curdles or something like that.& ...

Off to the Chianti Trail
May 30, 2008

drove thru

Just hanging out and packing
Aug 14, 2009

We took it 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 ...

Chiocchio
Aug 9, 2009

Chiocchio, Rita and Lino - cooking lessons August 9, 2009 Today we didn't travel anywhere.  Rita and Lino came early to cook lunch for us.  We cooked and visited for about 4 1/2 hrs.  They made tortellini w/homade tomato sauce, bisteca on ...

2nd day
Aug 2, 2009

... .  house cooled down last night.  ambulance woke boys up.  rosemary, lavender, strwberries, zuchhini tomatoes around house.  went to Greve.  had a great lunch. chatted w/waitress alot.  they speak alot of english here.  walked around town.  went back to our town. ...

Oct 25, 2008
Oct 25, 2008 (1 photos)

Day tour of Chianti
Mar 16, 2008 (20 photos)

... of you have probably heard of that one) and Castellina.  We did a little pecorino cheese and wild boar salami tasting in Greve before Alessandro left us to wander around the town.  It was a very nice little place with a lovely main square.  ...

Greve in Chianti : que dire de plus
Nov 25, 2009 (4 photos)

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 ...

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

... for 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 ...