Hotel Truciolini Arezzo

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 ...

... pour nous, au village , il y a une cantine!! un endroit ou l'on peu deguster du vin toute l'annee. Dans une ambiance de cave a vin, il y a des machines distributrices d'echantillion de vin. Entre 0.60 et 6.00 euro l'echantillion! De cette facon, nous avons pus gouter a une vingtaines de bouteilles de la region.
Il y avait meme une degustation d'huile d'olive et emilie n'a pu s'empecher d'en achter une petite bouteille!

From Chianti went south to the Le Crete region. The drive provided us with more quintessential Tuscan scenery. We stayed overnight in Asciano as we could not make it to Montalcino before dark. We had vowed not to drive in the dark as the small windy roads and excessively erratic Italian drivers are not good for our nerves!

... village, which consisted of several little cobbled streets and so we were done very soon and ready for our sundowner. Spotted the local café/bar where I tried my first Chianti Classico and Kim enjoyed a Prosecco or two! The café/bar had free wifi so we settled in for the evening. 18th Up early today. We did a little fitness circuit (that 4 days later Kim is still sore from!!!) in the morning sun before venturing off on our hike. The hike took us through some ...

... 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!
Next morning a 7.00 am departure from the apartment took us on to the Autostrada, this time, north to Firenze Airport.
After a bit of a delay we were on our way to Spain!

... just drink wine) and another coconut macaroon, we ventured forth to further explore the town on foot.

Arezzo has a lively shopping district, the fashion shops being on par with Rome but without the crowds of tourists. We stocked up on some great food at the local supermarket and on tonight's menu is Roast Chicken and Vegies etc etc.

... When I checked the large printed display of hundreds of departing trains, I realized that our Arezzo train was bound for Milano. When that train clicked up on the display, I walked to the binario. There I found a second information system that used video monitors. Unfortunately, the two systems didn't agree. After validating our train tickets at a yellow machine, we rolled our bags out binario 9 and ...

... a CD or DVD. I knew I could download Divx files from the Internet cafe and burn them to CD. The possibility of watching American TV shows in Italy became a reality. Once again, not that big of a deal for me back home, but it was a problem that I found the answer to. That process was even more exciting...because not only could we watch Family Guy and regular movies with Divx files, we could also play MP3 files on the TV and look at our JPEG picture CDs we made just the ...

It's DECEMBER!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so excited I can't sleep at night and I wanted to just point out how exciting everything is right now so that you can all lie awake at night, sleepless and excited as well! It's not Novemblah anymore!! It is finally the beautiful month of December. And I am coming home in SIX days! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEE :-) Well, now that you are all just SOOO excited that you can't sleep ...

... it just in time. The exhibits are really interesting, there's all kinds of stuffed life - whales, ostriches, kangaroo's, peacocks, etc. Everything is displayed in beautiful glass and wood cases. La Specola La Specola Finally, towards the end, we arrive at the human wax models, made for medical students. They are flayed, dissected and disemboweled to ...