Villa il Poggio
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Last Two Days
... pretty well soaked, and finally gave up. It was late afternoon before we found a place to eat a light lunch of pasta, bread with oil, and house wine. The tomato sauce in the pasta was excellent; the house wine not so good. In the evening we went to Rosetta's and Giovanni's to say goodbye -- which cannot be done without having wine. Then had a home cooked meal. This morning, Thursday, I had my last piece of chocolate torte ...
Wedding Day
We drove to the villa a few days ago and have been settling in here getting ready for the wedding and meeting the other guests coming for the wedding. Ryan and Bick (my nephew and his new wife), have friends from all over. Ryan and Bick work in England and Bick's parents are from Malaysia, so was a very multicultural affair.
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Tuscany!
... Maria), and Dymph's husband Mick. We had a good look around at Florence. We saw the open air museum with the sculptures spotted here and there, the ancient leather market and the Accademia where Michaelangelo's statue of David is on display. The statue is pretty awesome!
Then we catch the train to Siena and to the hotel where we are staying for the next few ...
Our tour of Tuscany
... it was all said and done we had sampled ten different wines had another course and desert. Now it was time to order! What a great marketing scheme get them happy and they will loosen up with the purse strings. We it worked we have some wine, olive oil, balsamic vinegar and desert wine coming to America. Our next vineyard was Fattoria di Montecchio. Our guide was Alecia who explained that this vineyard was the hobby ...
A day in Chianti and some Il Palio frenzy
... we had a message from Paschal at Tuscany Ballooning. We were planning to go hot air ballooning just outside of Florence early the next morning on our drive to Lake Como. Unfortunately the weather didn’t look good, but Paschal was going to call us at 5am to let us know whether we’d be flying or not.
We quickly packed and tried to get to some sleep for our early morning call from Paschal. No bug lights tonight. ...
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- Swimming pool
- Free parking
- Pets allowed