Our last day in Tuscany so we busied ourselves in the morning by the pool and then set off to visit the local tourist attraction. As well as a good church or medieval town we also really enjoy looking at stalagmites and stalactites on our travels so we visited the Grotta Del Vento (wind grotto). Although only a few miles away the drive up took 45 minutes (and years off my life!! Nothing to do with Louise's driving that has been amazing but the crazy Italian roads...

Carlo.....is the man responsible for the amazing surroundings we find ourselves in. The villas are impeccable, everything catered for, Mosquito blinds everywhere ( Louise has turned into the mozzie eliminator having been bitten a fair bit...... I am finding her exploits hilarious but am I laughing because so far I have been relatively unscathed by them!!) Now Carlo has fig trees, we have kiwi fruit growing outside the front door, there are apples, limes, courgett...

Another morning by the pool and another afternoon/evening plan. Today we ventured into the large medieval town of LUCCA. On our way we stopped off at the Devils bridge a feat of medieval engineering, legend has it that the builder of the bridge had messed up and the devil appeared to him and asked to help but on condition that the man gave his soul to him. To do this he had to be the first to walk across the bridge. Reluctantly the man agreed and the bridge was d...

So today started off much as the same as yesterday and we had every intention of just chilling once more, however..........just after lunch we both got a bit fidgety and looked at each other and exclaimed together " this is so boring" much to each other's relief ( we realised that we both needed a purpose so from now on we had a plan!) We put the roof down and headed to the next town down or should I say up BARGA......We found what you do in every town...the ice ...

Woke up refreshed this morning in beautiful setting and decided to venture to Pisa. An hour drive, roof down, factor 50 and music on!!! We easily navigated our way to a car park, greeted annoyingly by lookie lookie men we navigated our way quickly away to find the famous landmark. Through an archway there it was, the leaning tower set amongst the grounds of the cathedral and other grand buildings. The most famous pose being photographed by hundreds of tourists, ...