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Florence is beautiful, the Tuscan landscape enchanting and the smaller medieval towns are charming. But let’s face it: the wine and the food experiences are magical. Although we love most things about Tuscany (other than the driving), it is the food and the wine that keeps us coming back. Throughout our recent week in Tuscany, […]
Tuscany has no shortage in options for shopping for food. You can go to large supermarkets, neighborhood specialty stores and farmers markets. And, since we were tourists, going to many normal tourist towns, we found huge numbers of touristy stores that offer very attractive combinations of dried pastas, bottled and canned …
The western Chianti villa at which we are staying is a charming, rustic home down a steep dirt road and about 15 minutes from the nearest decent-sized town. Halfway between Barberino and Certaldo, it requires a drive to get anywhere. Although we sought out and generally ate nice lunches wherever we happened to be during […]
Wine tasting in Tuscany is not quite the same as in Napa. The province has hundreds of small producers, spread over an area twelve times the size of Napa. Tasting times are seldom posted, and often flexible, distances between wineries great and the roads are long and steep, with hairpin turns. In fact, if you […]
Tuscany is not the first place you think of as the source for truffles. But, while Tuscan truffles are certainly less well known than those in Piedmont’s Alba region, Tuscany’s San Giovanni d’Asso’s truffles are reputed to be "almost as good, but significantly less expensive.” The main reason that we decided to arrange a truffle […]
All of our Tuscan trips begin and/or end in Florence and most include stops (although so far, not stays) in Florence’s large, millennia-old rival, Siena. Although it is a lovely city and we still intend to get back, especially for the Palio di Siena horserace, we skipped it on this trip to focus more time […]