Tuesday 15 April: it's cold, raining (even hailstones) with a fierce wind soo driving around and visiting:

Montalcino (famous for it's Brunello wines) , the San Antimo cloister and the lovely city of Pienza.

But first breakfast, for the fist time not outside in the garden.

view from our parking place, this is the Chianti ^^

we tasted 2 high quality Brunello's in the tasting room of the castle at Montalcino

and had lunch afterwards with Bruchetta & a Brunello

after lunch an espresso in this lovely historic place

fun poster at Montalcino

After lunch and coffee we drove to the nearby cloister of San Antimo. 

San Antimo

The last place we visited today was Pienza.

what a view  

Tuscany holiday continued; Monday 14 tasting, Crete and dinner at Barone di Ferro

Monday 14 April 2014

Lovely weather so we stayed in the garden leisuring, having breakfast, lunch and reading our ebooks. 
Late afternoon we went to the wine tasting of the estate where we live 'Tenuta di Arceno' and bought several bottles of excellent Chianti Classico reserva.

tasting room of Tenuta di Arceno

 Afterwards when the light was good (after 18 hrs) we visited the Crete: wonderful views of green hills.

We decided to go for dinner at 'our village' San Gusme. We had a lovely Tuscan dinner at Barone di Ferro.

 As my internet is soooo slow atm I will continue tomorrow.

San Donato; a house in Tuscany (near Siena)

Staying in an awesome place called San Donato (near Siena) from 10 - 21 April 2014

Thursday & Friday, 10 & 11 April 2014

Our flight was smooth and we had a clear view on the Alps.

After arrival at Pisa Airport we collected our rented car a Fiat 500L, which btw isn't small at all. We drove to our rented home near the small town of San Gusme and larger town Castelnuovo Berardenga. 

San Donato is a very authentic (part of a) farmhouse and has a super large lovely garden, a very equipped kitchen, a room with an open fire place (yeah!), 2 bedrooms and 3 (!) bathrooms (no idea why). 
Some photos of our home for the coming days: 

breakfast in the garden 

home made salad for lunch 

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Saturday, 12 April we went for a walk

view on our home with the surrounding vinyards

San Gusme

 

our healthy drinks at the wine bar in San Gusme

this cool property is for sale... arghhhhh wouldn't that be a super B&B ....

our car on the dirt road leading to our home

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Sunday 13 April: afternoon rain and a visit to Siena

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 The Duomo of Siena

the marvelous marble floor of the Duomo

Inside the Museum of the Duomo

a view on Siena

bruschetta ^^

Hey it's almost Easter

To be continued...
dikke kus
Carina