8/10/12 Siena day 3 We awoke the this morning to find the the whole area covered in a Blanket of fog, we're lucky to be able to see 10 feet in front of us. I thought to myself, that is great,it is hard enough to drive as it is, now to drive in fog, you got to be dreaming. We waited about an hr and the fog seemed to lift a little ,so away we went, we going to see a village by the name of Siena. The drive was much better as the girl Shirley and Di were better a...

7/10/12 Day two of the Tuscany adventure, big night before all the group have a well deserved sleep in , this tranquil place has allowed us to fall back and regroup. Most are awake by the 8.00 to 8.30 time frame but still a bit sluggish, by 10.00, everyone is ready to set off  in different directions. One of our friend went bike riding about 8.00 and was missing for 3hrs, he had taken the wrong turn and wound up a winery a long way from the villa,around about 1...

6/10/12 This is it we are leaving Florence to travel by car to the heart of Tuscany. The villa we will be looking for is between Certaldo  and Gambassie Terme. Shirley suggests  we take the more scenic route which takes us past some Bella (beautiful) country side and we arrive at a small town which goes by the name Greve, pronounced gravy, the reason we stop here was through the research Shirley she had found that there was a wine degustation somewhere I this ...

Cinque Terre,what the heck is that. Well it is a group of small villages along the coast that have been around since the 12th century. Each village is by train no more than 5minutes away from the other.these villages have houses that rise from the rock face at the bottom of cliffs right up to the top using the cliff as part of the structure,they all have their own language and all produce some of the finest olive oil and white wine in the whole of Florence. We s...

Ciao all who are still reading,the name you see is the man who owns and cooks at Osteria Francescana,unfortunately for Shirley and I he was in Australia, near broke Shirley's heart. We travelled to Modena by public transport,train and had a ball. Two super fast, one normal and one cattle,this one is the common workers train. Left Florence at 10.30 a.m,arrived Modena 11.40 a.m. All was good til we tried to find the ristorante, no one spoke english,Modena is a smal...