Day trip

Hi all

Tuesday was our day trip. A bus collected us from the Villa and we spent yet another day eating and drinking!

We started the morning with a visit to a butcher shop in Arezzo, and tried some wonderful meats. I bought a role of Salami and will have to sneak it back to SA somewhere in my luggage. Going to have a problem with weight when I come back, well... mine and my luggage!

After that we went to a cheese farm, where they showed us how they make some of the most wonderful cheeses in Italy. From goats as well as sheep! Then off to a tasting! We tried a number of Cheeses and seeing as the couple whose farm it is are from Sardinia they made some traditional Sardinia stuff with the cheese for us to try. You won't believe this but in some of the cakes we had they had added cream cheese in stead of butter, lovely!

After this visit we had gone to a Linen factory. They weave the linen on these massive machines and the fabrics are to die for...so are the prices so only nice to look at.

After this, shopping in Arezzo for almost 2 hours, we had a wonderful time there, they have this 1 very long street in the centre of town where they have all the Brand stores you can think of.

Then a wine tasting. Tried 2 really good wines there, so bought Darryl and Ida a bottle of each for my visit in Sweden. Lets hope I can get it wrapped up between my clothes without breaking so I can get it there in one piece! The wine estate is a little treasure up on the hill. The owners are a elderly couple who also run a guest house there the place is stunning. There tasting room as a very interesting room and has some really great modern art all over, I have loads of photos of it. O, sorry I am unable to add any photos to my log as I had left my cable at home and this computer has no slot to insert my card to download.

Then to end off the evening we had dinner in a restaurant in the town of Poppi. We were all really tired by then as it was 21:00 already and conversation was an effort for all. We had fun anyway.

Another wonderful day under the Tuscan skies has come to an end!

Till my next blog.

Take care all.

Deidre