Calcione Country and Castle
Travel Blogs from Lucignano
Last Two Days
... I packed up and checked out; then Virginia, the innkeeper, gave me a ride to Lisa and Helena's. We figured out what train I will take to Florence later today, then went to say goodbye to Sylvia & Sergio -- again not done without a glass of wine, this time a French champagne! Tomorrow, Friday, I take a very, very early flight (6:30am) to Frankfurt and then on to SFO. It's been absolutely grande! Ciao! Arrivederci! To Italy. A Presto! To ...
Wedding Day
... itself is an amazing place, and we have had some very interesting moments here. My sisters and myself have had a door close behind us and then open itself when Mia asked to leave the room. Dymph was talking to what she thought was us for a while as she heard people walking behind her, when she found later, she was the only person ...
Tuscany!
I have decided to put the first few days of the Italian tour in a separate log as there was so much to see and to take in. Once the day was done, there is only time for rest!
I arrived in Rome and was a little taken back by what I saw. The airport is not really a high light of Italy and is a bit of a anti-climax for me coming to a new country. However I found a ...
Siena!
... of the streets are labelled!!!
Needless to say we got super lost (worst yet) for about half an hour. Siena is ridiculously hard to naviagate even when you have a good map! So after we asked five or six other tourists to see their map we finally found our hostel, with very sweaty backs and and sore feet.
We arrived late in Siena, around 8pm (really closer to 9pm by the time we found our place), so we just went to a ...
If You are in Tuscany . . .
We drove to the nearby town of Lucignano and had a real treat. The old town is encompassed by a circular wall, and within it, you can walk around (or drive in a tiny car or scooter) in the inner or outer circles. It is so pretty, and set in the glorious Tuscan countryside.
As we walked though the narrow streets, a few neighbours chit-chatted in Italian (of course) with each other from their ...