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Last Day in Tuscany
... on break/siesta and told me to come back in the afternoon. So I found a grocery store and got stuff for our daily picnic. Bread, meat, olives, pesto, fruit and peppers (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 while. ...
From Village to Village
Just finished our second full day here in Tuscany. We have been pretty tired, so not veering off to much yet.
First morning we slept in to catch up on some much needed rest. The Villa here is very quiet, making it easy to sleep in.
We did get out and going around noon. Headed to see a couple nearby villages. What’s great about this area, is you can drive anywhere and run into one. All the back roads are quite ...
22/9 Wednesday Greve, Chianti
... better in the smaller towns. In Florence lots of restaurants have tourist menus which aren't that great, pizza, pasta etc. We have found a good spot for cheap coffee in the morning surprisingly near the Duomo, which is on the way to the station. We are getting used to being serenaded at night, will have to buy a .CD from one guy who sings on the plaza every night. Weather warm, few clouds, no wind, a little cooler at ...
Shoppers heaven.
... attractions. It would be great to spend more time in some of the cities to explore the backstreets as there are some amazing restaurants and bars. We climbed the dome of the Duomo which has teh most amazing view and makes you wonder how they actually built some of these things many years ago.
On our last night we wandered up some hill (cant remember off the top of my head which one it was) and watched the sunset ...
Yeah! TUSCANY!!
... our host and her dogs, Rocky, Luna and Nepolitano. The view from up here were amazing - you can see for miles. I am not sure how we will put up with this !!!
As we have used of a laundry/kitchenette we made ourselves a meal of pasta with tomato, salami and chilli with a roquola salad and sat overlooking the Tuscan countryside. What a perfect evening! ...


