Tuscany is beautiful. Our place here is just as beautiful. After arriving early this afternoon, we visited Dudda and Greve and loaded up on some groceries, hit the bank, grabbed a gelato, and stopped for a pizza (which was of course delicious). We also met the tallest Italian family in history. I imagine they are in the guinness book of world records. Not kidding a couple of them had to be 6'5.
After seeing Valpolicella and Piemonte, I have to say Tuscany is not what I expected. There are less vineyards and more other types of vegetation. Beautiful definitely, but just different. Big trees, vineyard, big trees vineyard. Whereas the other wine regions were vineyard, vineyard, vineyard, vineyard, small patch of trees. Both beautiful, but the opposite of what I expected for the "tourist" wine region and then other wine regions.
Someone asked me how I find the time to write while we are here. I will explain. We just finished cooking ourselves dinner as we have full facilities here, and we are now sitting out on our private veranda, sipping wine made by the owners of the property, looking at the hills of Tuscany. So the time comes mostly when I need 30 minutes or an hour of down time, and we are sitting in perfect weather (27-31 the last few days), and looking at the perfect scenery - knowing I need a way to remember this.
PS - I am not a fan of the bugs in Tuscany. We have seen a few that I have to check twice before I can be sure if it is a bird or a bug.
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