Agriturismo Farm Sper Manciano

From the Med we drove inland to the east and into Southern Tuscany. We drove through some plain countryside and were about 2 kms from our destination when we commented on where is the town as we could not see it. Around a hair pin bend and we went wow! There in front of us was the walled city of Pitigliano nested on the top of hill surrounded by...

Last night we had just made a new itinerary to include a visit to a National Park on the coast, but that was all thrown out the window as we received a text message from Kim's mum saying she wanted to come and join us. Kim was ecstatic!!! Another replan session as we did our much overdue laundry in Grosetto and our trip of Italy was to come to a...

Thursday morning we are ready to leave for Orbetello. We are sad to leave our secluded retreat but ready for the next leg of our adventure. Allesandro is driving us over the Umbrian mountains through Tuscany to the sea. Italian drivers are fast and the pass each other aggressively but seem to do it without killing each other. She was great, talk...

We had a quick stop over in hill town of Tuscania on our way south. We choose the city because it had a HI youth hostel that looked amazing and ended up being really nice. We had beautiful room with a balcony in a historic hotel. At night we took a stroll to the city's piazza and caught a free jazz concert and art exhibition. We also got in on t...

Tarquinia is a little village with interesting Etruscians cemetery.In the past(2000- 3000 years ago) it was important trade city for Etruscians. There is not so much writen about Etruscians. Historicians hardly can read and understand Etruscians language, so still lot of secrets about this interesting people.Beautifull cemetery deep in the count...

So we arrived in Civitavechia Port (1 hr from Rome) today and again we have done Rome already on our honeymoon. So it was great, because there was no great rush to hit one of those early tours and we just did our first cruise organized tour in wine and Olive Oil country. We woke up, ordered room service and headed to the Celebrity Theater on boa...

After a 45 minute bus ride we arrived in the Florentine Hills, at Castle of Trebbio. The castle was built in 1184 by the Pazzi family on a hill surrounded by olive groves and vineyards. This beautiful place was the spot where we took tours of the cellars and vineyards (even the dungeon! - where they make extra virgin olive oil). At the beginning...

Well, we have taken way too long to update this travelpod and by now you already know what's going on. These pictures were taken in the past 2 months and are mostly of the town of Arcidosso and our apartment, but there are a few from the near by towns. For the first week in Arcidosso we stayed at a villa about 100 yards from the brewery, but 4km...

We rented a car before we went to Montepulciano to make it easier to get to the small Tuscan towns. We were hoping it would not be a waste of money, turns out it was a great idea, it would have been extremely difficult getting to the places we needed to go by bus. Arcidosso is another cute medieval town that just so happens to have a microbrewer...

A long expected day lies ahead . After a good nights sleep, most of the time was spent sharing stories with our fellow travelers. That night we were a decent mix of nationalities in the 11 bed dorm room: Denmark, Canada, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Mexico, USA, Sweden and Australia. Just listening to the different stories people can tell, is the bes...