http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/TravelInTuscany/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from TravelInTuscany en-us Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:26:48 UTC Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:26:48 UTC Hi all. We are now home again and I've taken a sampling of the photos we have taken while in Italy and have put them up on a website for your viewing.We really enjoyed our trip to Tuscany and at the end to a region called Cinque Terres which boasts a fabulous coastline. The weather was clear blue skies and warm temperatures for the entire week save the first day and our arrival back in Can http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Tuscany/Florence/blog-96274.html Bonasera... Missed a day but that's life in laidback Italy time is not important. We had a beautiful walk up to the medieval village yesterday morning ending in San Gimignano a walled village with 17 towers still standing all dating back to around the 13th century. We then proceeded to Monteriggiano sp for a bierra or espresso.Today we've spent the day in Sienna which is a quaint uni http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Tuscany/San-Gimignano/blog-94566.html Bongiorno we are back.. Our first full day with the group. We had a great opening dinner last night getting to know each other in the village restaurant. We had polenta with mushroom stuffed rabbit lamb with tomatoes and wine of course. The espresso at 10 was a mistake as it kept me awake for some time.The villa has a view opening to vineyards below the town of Castellina and is very beauti http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Tuscany/Volterra/blog-94003.html Hi all Bongiorno... We are back again at the Florence airport to meet up with the Explore group. We've spent the night in town and have had our initial good and bad experiences...The bad one was an incredably poor dinner aimed at ripping off tourists the good was our initial experiences of gelato and espressos. Yum.The number of tourists here even in October is mind boggling. We will be happ http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Tuscany/Florence/blog-93747.html