Southern Tuscany – cooking classes and lots of new friends…
On our way from San Gimiginano we headed directly across to Arezzo to see an antique fair that is on the first week-end of each month. You all know our love for anything ‘old’...
Bagni Di Lucca - Ponte Serraglio
On our way from San Gimiginano we headed directly across to Arezzo to see an antique fair that is on the first week-end of each month. You all know our love for anything ‘old’...
Once again chance or fate took us down a different path and lead us to Costello Vicchiomaggio a beautiful castle/fort on top of the hill just outside Greve. Driving from Vinci, I spotted...
Finding Vinci was a lovely drive through what we would call the picture postcard views of Tuscany. Rows of olive trees and grapevines all neatly running up the hills to big stone houses that...
High in the hills above Bagni Di Lucca is the very little village of Vergemoli. Only a few streets with houses once again clinging to the rocks beneath them as they have done so...
Five fabulous villages clinging to the mountains in a higdelpigledy conglomeration of shapes, sizes and crooked walls and painted in various hues of pink, yellow and dirty white. Nothing seems to be straight or...
As we left Menaggio we stopped in Lake Como for a coffee and a quick dash through the shops. Wow, italian women know how to dress. Very stylish and simple. The tourists stand out...
Sitting high in Northern Italy are two absolutely wonderful scenic gems – Lake Garda and Lake Como. There are a few other lakes but the past week we have explored just one small part of...
I think that was a different shakespeare story – Rapunsel. Not the Romeo and Giulietta story that is what Verona is all about. Touch her right boob and you’ll find true love or something ...