Italy trip - Toscana

August 27, 2018

Hello, everybody,

Today I am gonna share with you a few lovely tips from amazing Toscana.
It was for sure quite an experience that you should definitely try if you are in Florence area.

At first we were looking for a one day trip organized for larger groups, but in the end we gave up on the idea and finally we decided to rent a car for one day. If you go on your own it is much easier for sure and you can do whatever you want.

I really wanted to try an old Fiat 500 :), but thinking I wouldn't like to be boiled in my own blood :), in the end we rented a new Fiat with air conditioning. The site we used was Europecar.com and it was a very good experience. They didn't try to scam us or anything.

We left very early in the morning from Florence city center and came back around 11 PM at night - all in all we travelled like 400 km :)

The areas we visited were as follows:

San Gimignano
Chianti
Siena
Val d'Orcia
La Foce

In San Gimignano there are a few parking lots, but they were full, so had a difficult time to park the car, but in the end after we circle them around we managed to park very close to the city center.

Amazing views from San Gimignano

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Random old Fiat on the road :) near San Gimignano

Chianti area

There are many vineyards in Chianti area and it is a perfect place to take some lovely pics.

Chianti hills

Siena

Siena is a lovely city from Tuscany area - they have very good wine :)

Siena city center

In Siena we also ate, because why not :). The place was called Il Peccatore.

We took some bruschetta, a specific italian salad called panzanella and some pasta.

The bruschetta and pasta were pretty good, but the panzanella was not made on the spot. As such I cannot recommend it.

Also the place was not very crowdy and, despite of that, we were served the last, after 2 other tables who came after us finished their meal.

I guess they just forgot about us - dolce far niente style :)

My advice - go some place else, if you decide to eat in Siena :)

The way to Val d'Orcia

Val d'Orcia

La Foce

La Foce is an area where there is this famous curvy road from Tuscany and we really wanted to be there for sunset.

It wasn't what we expected in terms of colours, but it was nice in the end. We stayed there until the sun went down and then we were on our way back to Florence.