10/16/19-10/19/19 Tuscany Italy

We have been so lucky, weather wise, since returning to the continent from UK and Ireland. It’s been mostly sunny and warm (a little humid 😳) but our last night in Rome we were treated to a huge thunderstorm! Excellent viewing from the rooftop!

Ok, off on the 16th to Tuscany! Quick one km walk to the metro, then a nine stop trip on the A line to Termini Station. Then a quick 1 1/2 hour train to Chiusi, and taxi to pickup our car at Carolina and Paulo’s! Said our goodbyes to them, then two hours on the toll highways through beautiful Tuscany to our new home in Barberino Val d Elsa, a lovely small village in the hills of Tuscany!

A lovely converted stable, please note the pizza oven and the bbq, essentials in Italy 😎👍 The next day we headed to one of our favorite Tuscan city’s Montepulciano for some wine tasting and sightseeing

Cantina Crociani and our friend Roberta, a wonderful time👍🍷A quick picnic in a vineyard and off to San Gi

San Gimignano is a lovely Tuscan hillside city, wonderfully preserved!

Back to our Airbnb and let’s use that pizza oven👍😎

I fought a cold for a couple days so I decided to rest the next day, and so Cindy and Kate headed to Florence for a visit. Who did they run in to but our friends, Sam and Jean from PDX

Small world isn’t it👍

Ok, they walked ten miles in Florence, glad I wasn’t there😎

After a quick lunch back at the villa, they decided to go wine tasting in Greve in Chianti, a lovey small village. I’m deep in a Grisham book and enjoying the sunshine on the terrace 😜

Early in the AM we head for Siena, easy to visit and easy to enjoy. Lovely city

They have horse races twice a year with competition between neighborhoods! It’s called Corriere di Siena, quite the competition

Picnic in the vineyards again on our way to Panzano, it’s olive harvest time!

Panzano is a great hilltop village, we stayed here in 2013, love it!

Wonderful time with Kate, but we have to take her to the airport. She’s headed to Munich, Salzburg then onto Berlin for the next several days!

Wonderful time again in Tuscany. It’s a magical place, and fall is especially wonderful with the leaves turning colors

Our new home, in Bertinoro, on the Adriatic coast. It’s a one bedroom converted hunting lodge in the vineyards, pinch us✔️

Ciao Ciao !