Our Tuscan Villa

   

We spent the week here… a little villa – actually a big villa – right between the Tuscan towns of Volterra and San Gimignano.  Our place was just perfect.  Nice but still authentic and charming – and FIVE bedrooms so even Matthew and Luke shared their own.  It was dark when we pulled in so we didn’t really see much of the outside or view until the next morning.  The Italian lady who owned and rented the villa showed us around – only she didn’t speak any English and we didn’t speak any Italian.  She and Chris conversed a ‘little’ in German with lots of charades and we were able to understand each other quite well.  She had left us a bottle of wine but when we told her we didn’t drink and she finally understood, she seemed determined to leave us with something else and went back to get fresh eggs, cookies, toast crackers, and yogurts for us.  She checked on us multiple times and made us feel right at home.  I’d go back in a second.  It really was a good location… an hour’s drive from Pisa, Florence, Siena and nestled right between Volterra and San Gimignano.  It was the perfect mid-point.

  

View from our bedroom window… would be amazing in the summer.  Makes me want to go back.

Nearby…