Hello from Tuscany, this is the view I am looking at in the garden as I write this 🙂
Yesterday we packed up and headed north – the dreaded 7 hour drive to Tuscany, the longest of the trip. Again the kids were outstanding, the portable DVD player we brought with us has been a godsend 😉 We shared the driving, just insane when you are doing 130km an hour (the speed limit) and a Mercedes/BMW/Audi comes roaring past and literally makes your car shake!
We reached Montestigliano which is our home for the next week, in a villa at an ‘agriturismo’ about 12km outside of Siena. It is a working farm as well of 3000 acres with literally thousands of olive trees. It is the third time Mike and I have stayed here (1998, 2004 and now) and we just love it. It is apparently unseasonably hot here – 35 degrees today and the same all week, so we will be spending lots of time in the pool!
Beautiful Montestigliano gardens
View from the balcony of our villa at Montestigliano
View of our villa
The main pool at Montestigliano
