visit Tuscany

We’re delaying ou trip until next year….

Beautiful, stunning and fabulous!

I would like to visit Tuscany within the next two years, every since I’ve seen Under the Tuscan Sun, I have wanted to visit.

Is it as great as you hear?

I have always wanted to see Italy. Tuscany is just the first stop. Maybe Rome is next.

I took a sabbatical from work and spent 3 weeks in Tuscany, Orvieto and Rome. I lived in a rented villa for 2 weeks. It was wonderful and I would do it again in a second. Two things you need: cash and mosquito spray. The villa had a lot of bugs (it was a converted 18th-century farmhouse) and no air conditioning so the windows had to be open and the screens didn’t keep the bugs out. Pretty much everything is Tuscany is expensive, except the walks and views: groceries, dining out, travel, museums. The beaches are private and you have to rent umbrella space at like 15 euros an hour. Tuscany is BIG and the trains don’t go to Chianti or the hill towns, so you have to rent a car and that plus gas is expensive. It’s not practical to bicycle. I think I spent $5000 over 3 weeks including the villa rental. Stay near Lucca, which is a beautiful walled city in a central location.

I just want to visit Tuscany – always have. So I’m gonna go there next summer.

I have an oportunity to do this in 2006.

Despite the fact that I spent one of the worst, most self-absorbed weeks of my life here, I still remember fondly: the Mona Lisa-like landscape, the fabulous fresh produce (though not the poultry—heads! feet! feathers! ick!), the fresh-pressed olive oil we just should have drunk from little cups, the farmer in the morning with his gun to scare away the crows, the church bells in the distance, the grand and glorious weather rolling in across the plains…. Imagine what it would be like in a good mood!