We're staying at Villa Amiata, approximately 2km outside of Montalcino. From all accounts and photos, it's a lovely place to relax, eat, and use as a home base to explore random delightful villages. Montalcino is home to the lovely Brunello di Montalcino, of which I am sure we will drink plenty. Our house is also situated walking distance to a small ristorante. More about that to come, I am sure. Hopefully they will know about gluten-free dining, for the Lucia.
It looks like a lovely villa, with the exception of some quite frightening modern art featuring clowns..yikes. We'll have to turn that around for the duration. Don't need to frighten the kiddies. Or the adults. The pool looks quite inviting, although Denise did wonder if it is going to be warm enough (we had a cold pool experiencing wine tasting in Walla Walla that we haven't quite gotten over).
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If it's a warm pool, that'll be great, but if it's cold, the wine will have to warm us up. We're very much looking forward to the trip and are practicing (well, Robin is anyway) our Italian using Rosetta Stone. And we're, of course, sampling some Italian wine from a newish little shop here on Bainbridge in preparation, as well.
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