Siena saw our dust this morning as we headed for rolling tuscany hills lathered with grape vines. It was a green, lush drive, with vineyards and olive groves everywhere. We were hunting down a wine-tour facility and stopped at Castello de Verrazzano. A wine tour that required reservations, which we didn't have, was to start in 20 minutes. They has two empty seats left and sold them to us. The tour was great as was the incredible 5 course meal they served, with cold meat, pasta, salad, beans, pork, cheese, bread, three dinner wines, a dessert wine, grappa, coffee and biscotti. It took the entire afternoon, we had pleasant conversations with people from San Francisco and London England. It was a great, wonderful, fun afternoon. Our tour guide was a wonderful woman with great jokes that she probably says with each tour group; but they worked and made us all laugh. She took us through all the romantic cellars, which are the cellars with wine in barrels. She did not take us through the stainless steel cellars. It is a massive wine operation; 220 hectares, mostly grapes but some olive trees as well.
We made it to Florence and are settled.
We made it to Florence and are settled.
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