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A Must for Wine Lovers Poggio Etrusco, Tuscany

I was told about this particular expat run place the other evening when I happened to meet up with the charming Nicole Martinelli, journalist, and the blogger behind entertaining blog about Italy Zoomata.com.

Ghoulish Gastronomy in Tuscany

The Castello Sorci Restaurant in Tuscany

Deep in the depths of Tuscany, not too far from a delightful little place called Anghiari, which is on the border with Umbria, there is the hauntingly interesting restaurant the Locanda al Castello di Sorci.

Summer Holiday Thoughts

It’s looks as though we may be heading for Corsica this year, as long as I can overcome the other half’s worries about our little pup eating our friends’ non-puppy friendly little son, that is. I’m quite keen, especially after hearing from an Italian friend that Corsica is probably more beautiful than Sardinia. Not sure […]

Why Not Visit the Chianti Sculpture Park in Tuscany?

I found out about the Chianti Sculpture Park after writing about sculptor Gianpietro Carlesso caused me to ‘come up in conversation’ while Chris Bright was chatting to fellow American and Milan based Sean Carlos. After wending my way around the world wide web and I came across the Chianti Sculpture Park, which looks rather interesting […]

Summer Hols 2007, part 3.

Sorry about the time it took me to get round to writing about this – I got carried away on other stuff. Seeing as the weather had been holding up, towards the end of week one of our Tuscany 2007 holidays we decided to go for a day-long boat trip (35 Euros, with lunch, I […]

Summer Hols 2007, part 2.

On another day of our Tuscan hols, and while our respective other halves relaxed, Claudio and I took the wee ones off to the Uccellina Park which was about half an hour south of us.  This park, which is an example of Mediterranean coastal woodland, is lovely.  There are plenty of walks and a sandy […]

My office – I wish!

I shot this on the island of Giglio. ‘Ufficio’ means office in Italian and the little red sign, if you cannot read it, says ‘back soon’! The perfect office, possibly??!!

Summer Hols 2007, part 1.

Yes, I know it is a mite unoriginal for an Englishman to holiday in Tuscany seeing as part of the area has even earned the nickname ‘Chiantishire’ as a result of the numbers of Britons that frequent the area. But you can’t really blame them, the area is beautiful, the wine good and, on the […]