In the plane getting close to Italy, this is one of the islands.
You can begin to see the yachts and boats traveling to the island.
Driving from Roma Airport to Tuscany
This is the A1 Autostrade
Big sunflower field, the sunflowers are pointing away from the autostrade, took me a while to figure out what they were at first.
One of the towns on the drive, most towns have a bell tower at the topmost point like this.
Lots of hill/mountain tops are excavated for limestone or granite, I couldn't tell which, but here is an example of a larger quarry
Making a stop in Cetona before we go to the villa
Wine cellars, at least I think, maybe dungeons?
To the villa, which is only about 10 minutes from Cetona
Very steep drive up to the villa which is on top of a hill/mountain
And here we are :)
The view from my room.
Dusk or dawn, I forget, both are beautiful
Each of these sunflowers is probably about 5 feet high
The villa tower, bottom most windows are one of the living rooms, the upper are both bedrooms
Tuscany has amazing fields of sunflowers
Barbecue Pit
Walkway down to the barbecue pit
Tower of the villa, there is one room up there, too bad it was taken when I already arrived
Main kitchen (of 5 in the house)
My room
Ceiling of my room
Living room for upstairs, every 2-3 rooms has a private living room and kitchen
Kitchen closest to my room
View from kitchen
View from upstairs tower
Field of sunflowers
This sunflower field stretches about 180 degrees around the villa, I've never seen so many sunflowers in my life.
Back of the villa, we had many meals and beers out here :)
This is looking directly at the kitchen.
Stairway to upstairs where my room was
THe well, not sure if that is the water we used or not
The pool which overlooks the sunflower fields.
Superb fruit pie cooked by one of our own
Typical 'work' day :)
Shadow of the villa cast over the sunflower fields, was beautiful
Cetona
Problems at the petrol station, we found out after filling the car up this machine didn't give change, and we couldn't pay with a card because it wasn't working
Your options are diesel, diesel, or diesel.
Random abandon villa on the side of the road, there are quite a few of these.
Grapes!
More Grapes!
Even more grapes!
And sunflowers....
Meal for the evening, salad, sandwiches, fruit, can't go wrong with that.
Streets of Cetona, remember, this is on a mountain top, so the streets snake around to the top of the mountain.
Let's walk to the top
Here we are
We are close to the top most part of Cetona, problem is, we couldn't go to the top, the top most fortifications are privately owned, so this is the highest we could go.
The private entrance going to the peak
I think this is an ancient bison,
The main square with shops and restaurants in Cetona
Desert of the evening
