Just got an email from To-Tuscany with a cool special in it …

To Tuscany are celebrating too! The leading publishers of guidebooks – Rough Guide – and also Footprint guides have both recommended To Tuscany as a company for people considering travelling to the area.  To celebrate this achievement and we would like to offer guests booking any one-bedroomed apartment a free copy of the Rough Guide to Tuscany and Umbria.  Bookings must be made before the end of June 2010 and travel must be completed within 2010.  Please enter code “Rough Guide” in the comments section on the booking form.

And, you could stay in one of our favorite vineyards, Casanova di Ama, in a free-standing cottage.  So, if you are planning an Italian trip soon, I would recommend To-Tuscany … the place that we rented through them was very nice and they have very good customer service both inside and outside of Italy.

Okay, while in Italy, we visited several vineyards!  One of our goals for the trip was to drink great local wine from places that it is nearly impossible to get it from anywhere else.

Jill on the Dievole Winery Tour

While we were there, we visited a total of five vineyards and a couple of wine stores.  So, here are our experiences …

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Hams with tails @ Falorni

Meats on display @ Falorni

One of the best reasons to go to Italy is for the food and Tuscany – especially Chianti – is no exception!  While we were there (and even now, because we brought some stuff back), we enjoyed a range of traditional foods and great produce.  From the simple items that we found at the Coop in Radda to the wonderful meats that we purchased in Greve-in-Chianti at Antica Macelleria Falorni, we never had bad food on our trip!  While we had several very good experiences at local restaurants, my favorite meals consisted of the wonderful prosciutto and salami produced throughout the area. Read more »

The Bedroom

The villa that we rented in Tuscany was wonderful!  It was a little one-bed vacation apartment located near the small town of San Sano and between the larger towns of Radda-in-Chianti and Lecchi-in-Chianti.  This meant that it was only about 25km from Siena, which meant that you could parked in Sienna in less than an hour (even accounting for missed turns on the way); and, it was only a little over an hour to Florence (40km or so).  Overall, it was about as perfect of a location as we could have asked for! Read more »

Okay, I have finally got around to posting our trip photos … to see the gallery, click here.

In the next few days, I will be posting more information about what we did and where we went.