Hotel Etrusco Arezzo

... Osteria Gucini Restuarant: Grilled Veal with Shaved Truffle and Hand Rolled Spaghetti with Smoked Ham, Tomatoes and Cream, followed by Pana Cotta. Our first experience with truffles, more smell than taste!<br>Next morning a 7.00 am departure from the apartment took us on to the Autostrada, this time, north to Firenze Airport.<br>After a bit of a delay we were on our way to Spain!

... dellightful cafe for lunch: Margaharita Pizza, with a thin crispy base, belissimo! This cafe is well known as a meeting place for Hollywood stars.<br><br>Cortona has very narrow and steep streets, purrfect for pets.<br>Finally we arrived back at Arezzo and after booking a haircut for myself tomorrow (the hairdresser doesn't speak English so that will be exciting) I am sitting at the La Dolce Vita cafe writing this entry while Jane is off looking at the shops (gulp)<br>

... make that TWO, hand made bags. Not sure how she is going to carry both but I''m sure she will work it out.Walking past the Duomo, we then ventured onto the Ponte Vecchio, the old bridge over the Arno river. The shops on the bridge were almost entirely gold and jewellry shops, not many punters inside them thoughTomorrow we will attempt a day trip in the Panda, wish us luck<br><br>

Sorry for not including this text, a small internet cafe issue! Today we picked up our hire car, the mighty Fiat Panda, and with some trepidation set off on the wrong side of the road into peak hour Arezzo traffic!<br><br>After the adrenalin subsided a little we found ourselves, well we still don't know where we ended up, let's just call ...

... Ricardo uncovered a 500 year old fresco on the bedroom wall which had been painted over by the communists!! but an old fellow was able to help Ricardo find it. Last night we went for short stroll to pick up some supplies and we chose our first restaurant for the night's meal, a simple pasta dish.Today we did some more exploring and stumbled across a food market which covered about 3 blocks. Rusty's market in Cairns has nothing compared to this one, I ...

... the fresco cycle of the Legend of the True Cross created by Piero della Francesca, a work that is a fundamental to early Renaissance art. The frescoes were styled after a book which follows the wood that was used to make the cross of Christ from the Tree of Knowledge in the Garden of Eden all the way through to the Annunciation. While not considered historically correct, it is a beautiful depiction of the Christian story and includes frescoes of the King of Solomon meeting ...

First Train, First Challenge Traveling on our own during our first trip to Italy was madness in motion. We laughed and kept moving. After our first night in Roma, we called a cab rather than rolling our bags down the cobblestone streets to il posteggio dei taxi. The ride to Termini was quick, but when we saw the rivers of people flowing through Rome's central train station, we were worried. Termini has ...

... sex show wh**e you call a 900 numb** and some chick will do what you tell h**. It was worth a few laughs even if you can't hear what they are saying. We haven't met the neighbors yet, but th**e are Am**ican girls staying upstairs and down stairs. Yest**day, they w**e watching Team Am**ica on DVD down stairs. You can hear through the walls if your loud...they will hear me for sure. We don't have a DVD play**, but I would love nothing more then to stay home one night and ...

... San Domenico. Sometimes you have to make these sort of decisions when you are travelling on a budget. Hmmm, frescoes, or more Italian food. As there was still a couple of hours light left in the day, I jumped back on the train and headed to nearby Camucia, followed by a short bus ride up into the hills, where the town of Cortona lies perched on top of the Tuscan hills. Benigni also had a go here for his ...

... of the building. History of Science Museum The museum has a collection of scientific instruments including Galilean instruments like telescopes and lenses, and it's all very interesting. The staff is friendly and accommodating, and we enjoy the time we spend inside. Then, its time to cross over the Arno to the other side. We go past the Pitti ...