Tuscany has been on my wishlist years ago since I watched the movie “Under the Tuscan Sun”. Last week I finally got a chance to spend a week there. A week stay is actually too short to see everything. Tuscany is so big that it is divided into 5 regions: North, East, South, West and Central. This time we stayed in a very pretty farmhouse in Pescia, Northern Tuscany. We only managed exploring our nearby surroundings, Western Tuscany (Pisa) and just touched on Chianti (Central Tuscany).
To get there, we drove down there from Switzerland in less than 7 hours. The only thing we have to pay attention is that the traffic through the San Gottardo tunnel can be so busy that you can be stuck in the traffic for hours so that morning we left home pretty early and arrived Pescia at about 3 o’clock in the afternoon.
We stayed in a farmhouse full of olive trees and it's also a vineyard. It's much better than staying in a hotel. As you have your own place and you can cook real Italian food yourself. I took Jamie in Italy with me and after that week, I understand more about the Tuscan cuisine. Will definitely visit again.
For my full blog post, here is the url:
http://gourmettraveller88.com/2009/07/09/tuscany-part-1-garfagnana-tuscan-risotto-recipe/
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