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Relais La Saracina Pienza

SS146, Km 29 Pienza, Tuscany, 53026, Italy

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Buon Natale

A travel blog entry by slmcmillen

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... carol reverberated around the village, as it bounced off the old
stone walls of the city buildings.

What a
unique treat! This was not a Christmas
festival for tourists, that much was clear.
This was entirely local and we were, to our best guess, the only
Americans - or tourists, for that matter - in the entire piazza. People were friendly towards us and as we
milled among the craft stalls we ...

Lunch in the Rain

A travel blog entry by slmcmillen

... I purchased several of the soft wool pashimas - some for me and others for friends and family, then received a quick lesson from the sales clerk in the art of wearing the pashima. With her help I looped a colorful pink scarf around my neck and stepped back out into the light rain, feeling instantly warmer and happy inside. Tom, of course, was not as interested in colorful scarves and had stayed outside the shop to snap pictures of the streetscape. ...

My Favorite Italian City

A travel blog entry by mitulkapadia

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... Everywhere you turn are people eating at outdoor cafes, sunbathing in the open piazzas, and Duomo in Sienna with its magnificent inlaid marble floor work and columns is simply my favorite church in the world. And precisely because you don't feel like running to see a number of monuments and museums, Sienna really forces you to embrace the finer qualities of time in Italy. We enjoyed magnificent meals and wine and gelato which was the perfect break from the Rome/Florence ...

Suzie’s Yard: much ado about olives

A travel blog entry by rootsandroutes

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... description, the consistency and colour was a far cry from the delicate yellow-green of the hardened product that emerged a few days later, variously infused with rose water, orange and lavender oil.

The rain held off long enough for the anglophones to lobby successfully for an outdoors party. Firing up the wood-fired pizza oven for a huge feast of home-made pizzas that would eventually defeat our meagre bellies, it was hard not to look back on the long road through ...

Field Trip (even if it is a little late!)

A travel blog entry by sabrina.mason

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4

... church also in the piazza, we went looking for lunch. But lunch had to be delayed when our noses led us to Pienza's most famous product: Pecorino cheese! I had done a tasting of Pecorino cheese in my cooking class on the first day of class and had immediately fallen in love with it! It's absolutely delicious! So, I managed to find a nice wedge of Pecorino and packed it up for the bus ride back! Eventually, we found a little sandwich shop with big panini (or sandwiches). I ...

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