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Published: August 10th 2011
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We started our trip in
San Quirico D'Orcia and it's like to start with the best wine and than move to Coca Cola (not that there is something bad about Coke, i like it).
San Quirico is - for me - heart of Tuscany, THE place to go when you want to be inspired and just
create.
There is that magical old town (i didn't know by than that there are a lot of magical old towns around Tuscany😊)
If you visit this place, don't miss the bookshop (just ask for it the locals, there is only one😊) and if you like eating in the garden, go to Trattoria Osenna. They are very very nice to tourists and will suggest you something special for your taste.
It was short trip, so we moved almost everyday - don't expect a lot of notices though.
Second stop was
Bagni St. Filippo, only for couple of hours to see thermal spa waters in this kind of rock comething - shining with bright white and yellow and light brown. well, you have to see it. it's like from other world. too bed i didn't have my bikini with me. Unfortunatelly we had to move to
Sorano
the highest point Abbadia S. Salvatore. There we stayed one night, saw the crypt (if you want to see it, better go in the morning. No turists at all and if the place is empty, it's really magical.)
At this point, I started to miss the internet connection - this is even worse for tourists than in Bangkog. There are almost no internet cafés, and the few hot spots you can find require your own laptop. that would be no problem, but you have to activate the connection through some kind of internet card (waipa), which didn't seem to work, even after trying to send this SMS via dozen of mobile phones. too bad.
But we found one - so if you're in Abbadia, go to plazza della Repubblica - and search for Amiata computer. (Don't bother to take your laptop with you, you have to use their PC anyway. no wifi there.) It makes 1,5 euro / 30 min.
Great place to eat - if you speak little italian - Enoteca Sla Carli. Greetings to Mr. Carli btw. he doesn't speak a word english (or any other language except italian) but he says his grandpa (or grand grandpa, or something like that)
was templar knight. well... 😊
So that was the next stop - we moved again - through
Sorano (ever saw village build into a rock? just check the pictures),
Pitigiliano (even bigger than Sorano), to
Grosseto.
You know, if anybody would attack Italy during their siesta-time (which is somewhere from 12:00 or 13:00 till 16:30, but different places have different times), they wouldn't even notice. So everything was closed there, we went to
Marina de Grosseto. If you want to taste sea food and have nice view as well, go to Ristorante la Terazza. You can order anything, everything smells and tastes great. This was the first and only place we spent two days in - I think it must have come. And we were totally exhausted at that day as well.
Piombino and the restaurant Il Peccato was the next stop. They just had the best chill iPod music mix ever, best squids i ever tried AND they had dark bread! oh how i love Europe, but i missed it so much. (Don't get me wrong, nobody can hate italian food, it's just fantastic. but the white bread... they have to learn from the French in this case...)
Well, that was the last stop - i told you it was quick.
6 days, more than 6 places (i'm not gonna write about the way back, wasn't so interesting anyway...).
Nice tasting, dear Tuscany, see you next time!
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