Albergo Ristorante Sangallo Montepulciano

... tea, she had a tray of ceramic tea pots sitting out at her table with cream and honey and lumps of sugar. There was also some cookies and a plate of brownies she had baked. These she cooked with olive oil instead of vegetable oil because she ran out so we warned us that they might be slightly salty. But they were still very good.

She even lent us some books from her collection that ...

... villes de la region, orvieto est construite sur une coline et Emilie la gentillement rebatise orvieto "la vile sur une bosse". C'est une petite ville encore fortifier, construite sur une tres ancienne ville creuse a meme la coline. il y a une grosse cathedrale (duomo) comme toutes les villes que nous avons vue, puis il y a plusieur point de vue sur la region.

en fin de journee, nous avons visiter quelques unes ...

... caught the bus back to Florence – and on the way, viewed more gorgeous countryside and witnessed an incredible sunset over those rolling Tuscan fields. (After the sun went down and the “show” was over, I fell asleep for the rest of the ride. Hah.) Since we had such a big lunch, neither of us felt like going out for dinner, so we rested in our hotel room tonight, read, and booked our hotel room for Venice starting tomorrow. Onward we go!

Arezzo, la ville qui a suposement inspirer michelange !! 500 ans plus tard, on se deman de bien ce qui a pu l'inspirer! Puis c'est roberto bellini qui a fait son fillm "la vita est bella" dans les cantons a l'extrerieur des murs de la ville. C'est vrai que ...

un autre jour, une autre destination! Aujourd'hui, nous somme parties pour Siene. Arrive a siene, nous avons traverse la ville pour y trouver un bureau d'information touristique. une fois la carte de la vile en main, nous somme aller dinner dans un resto, un peu a l'ecart des sites touristiques. Comme dans tout les restorant italien, il y ...

... was out for their evening passeo - walk. The gelateria's and cafes were overflowing with people. I spied a deli with a spit raosted pig lying on display in the window and got the best pork sandwich ever!!! Too late to go on we decided to park up. We had accidentially drained our leisure battery so Kim had to cook by torch but the torch battery was running out..so no other choice, we headed for a bar! Life's tough.

... itself is divided up into 17 different contrada (or neighborhoods) each with their own mascot, colors and flag. I, for instance, live in Drago or the dragon contrada and our colors are red and green.

All the Sienese have a lot of pride in their contrada and are very loyal. This is most obviously shown in the Annual horse race that takes place during summer called The Palio. Each contrada spends crazy amounts of money on the horse and jockey that they enter into the two ...

If anyone has ever been to the beautiful countryside part of Italy you'll know whatI'm talking about. Tuscany is set in the centre of Italy. Where I was staying the fields were being plowed at the time so everything looked a tiny bit brown and motionless. I stayed in a beautiful agriturismo* called Poggio Tobruk, it was in the middle of no where but our nearest town was Montepulicano or Pienza. On our first day there we ...

... marmalade I did try was awful. Other then that no complaints, the wine was plentiful and the cheese and bread delightful. I even bought a few souvinoers to bring back to the states so everyone can dabble in these fine tastes. We had a little extra time as the rest of the group finished up so we headed down the street for wine tasting in one more small shop...why pass up free food and wine. Of course you must make it ...

... courtyard seemingly built on a 45-degree incline with room enough for two cars, five of which were already parked there. Still, through a feat of auto acrobatics accompanied by sheer force of will and nerves of steel, I manages to squeeze the Fiesta into a spot scarcely large enough for a scooter, then suck it in long enough to squeeze myself out of the tiny sliver I created once I exploited my ability to open the door a hair's breadth.