A last picture from Tuscany, taken from the hilltop of Montepulciano. The light wasn't great, I admit, but you get what you get. Vineyar...

Pienza is a smaller Tuscan hill town. An event was going on when we visited but we didn't understand what it was about. Some people were...

Our home away from home in the hills on the edge of Siena. The beautiful, musically Italian name means something like scatter your cares and...

Apologies to  Frances Mayes' wonderful book, but we have been driving around Tuscany for a couple of days looking for the quintessential...

Seen in the small Tuscan hill town of Pienza. Must be the original Model 1.   Didn't make it that far yesterday, with the effect of warm...

Two hour drive today from Bologna to Siena, braving the speed demons of the autostrada. We are staying in a place we were perhaps 20 years a...