Locanda Dello Spicchio
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Car hire for 3 days over
Left siena with noddy, our car hire for 3days, fiat panda, just fitting in our bags. Headed off to chianti sculpture park, approx 30large pieces placed in woodland of visual delight. Pieces by artists from all countries and other pieces in owners premises which was an old pottery furnace. This building was incredible and the views, wow. Then to volterra, hill town of course, what else in tuscany. Stayed the night just outside wall area ...
A Picture Perfect Town
... The End of the World, The Preaching of the Antichrist, The Resurrection of the Flesh, and contrasting images of Paradise and The Damned. The images are in beautiful condition and I could have spent an hour in there examining the paintings closer. But there were other sites to see!
Besides the obvious attraction of the cathedral, Orvieto is an absolutely charming, unrealistic town. The streets, I mean the actual stones of the ...
On the road again!
We were on the road early and and even managed a two hour stop over in Siena. That stop, while Ross enjoyed seeing the famous Il Campo for the first time, just reinforced how happy we were that we didn't stay in this busy, loud, extremely touristy and somewhat scruffy city. Little Volterra and now Montepulciano have such a nice atmosphere in comparison. We had a ...
New Friends and a Great Meal
... this is the fantasy bruschetta that was advertised with the four course and look at it a little funny. But it is just a prelude to a great meal. The fantasy bruschetta comes next and is a large platter of very tasty bruschetta, and local meats. She brings the red wine and two glasses but Carol waves her off as she is going to drink the white. My large wine glass is filled almost to the brim. We finish off the bruschetta and realize that the waitress must have gotten ...
We Stay in Orvieto
... This shaft we are looking at is 130 feet deep and only about 3 feet square. We enter a different cave where there are holes carved into the side walls. Starting way back before Christ, the Etruscans raised pigeons here. This continued well into the 1800s. The pigeons provided a source of food as well as income selling the meat. A pigeon can have two babies every month and you can still find roast pigeon on many of the menus here. All of these caves ...
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- Pets allowed