2025 Italy/Scotland/Ireland/Iceland 2025

Day 15 – June 3, 2025 – Foiano, Italy After a beautiful morning with our coffee and a big breakfast, we looked forward to today as we had our day trip with Barbara, who was taking us to two different wineries and then to two little towns, one after our first winery stop, and one […]

Day 22 – June 10, 2025 – Foiano, Italy John and I walked to town this morning for our usual croissant and cappuccino/café and checked out some parts of town we had not walked to yet. By the time we got back to the villa, we had walked over 4 miles. Today was a catch

Day 21 – June 9, 2025 – Foiano, Italy We left this morning about 10 am to head to Arezzo to check out the town before taking Steve and Patty to the train station at noon. Barbara gave us some suggestions of things to look at/do while there. After finally finding a parking spot, we

Day 20 – June 8, 2025 – Foiano, Italy This morning we decided to walk into town and look around again and we ended up seeing a parade, though we don’t know what it was for.  The walk to town and back is about 4 miles, so it’s a nice way to start the day

Day 19 – June 7, 2025 – Foiana, Italy Today Barbara picked us up around 10 am and was taking us for a Chianti tour in Montefalco which is about 1 hr. and 20 minutes from our villa. Our first stop was at Poggio al Sole (sun on the hill) Cellar, where we had 4

Day 18 – June 6, 2025 – Foiano, Italy Last night we decided to take a drive to Cortona and spend a few hours there walking around. Cortona is a town and commune in the province of Arezzo, which is about a 30-minute drive from the villa. It is known for its rich history dating

Day 17 – June 5, 2025 – Foiano, Italy This morning after breakfast, we headed to Montepulciano. We arrived about 9:45 and easily found a parking spot outside the city walls. Our tour of De Ricci cellars was not until 12:30 so we had plenty of time to walk around and check things out. John

Day 16 – June 4, 2025 – Foiano, Italy Today we have nothing planned except to return some coffee pods that don’t fit the coffee machine and to grab a few more groceries. We had a leisurely breakfast then headed into town to run our errands. We were trying to find some fish and went

Day 14 – June 2, 2025 – Foiano della Chiana, Italy – DISCLAIMER – I used ChatGPT for a couple of the picture comments to help remind me of what we saw. After not sleeping well (me) and getting up early, we enjoyed our coffee sitting outside and enjoying the sunrise. We cooked breakfast and

Day 13 – June 1, 2025 – Siena to Foiana della Chiana, Italy – DISCLAIMER – I used ChatGPT for some of the picture comments to help remind me of what we saw. Today we leave for our villa and I’m excited about it! We finished up all the packing, ate good breakfast and headed

Day 12 – May 31, 2025 – Siena, Italy – DISCLAIMER – I used ChatGPT (love it!) to help with some of the picture comments as I could not remember everything we did/saw. With nothing really planned except to do the panorama tour, we headed out about 10:15 am so that we could be there

Day 11 – May 30, 2025 – Siena, Italy – DISCLAIMER – I used ChatGPT (love it!) to help with some of the picture comments as I could not remember everything we did/saw. We had a quick breakfast as our tour guide was meeting us right outside the gates of our BNB at 9 am.

Day 10 – May 29, 2025 – Venice to Siena, Italy We were up fairly early, so we had light breakfast and finished the rest of the packing and we were on our way to the train station. We grabbed a sandwich for both of us and boarded the train. The train from Venice to

Day 9 – May 28, 2025 – Venice, Italy So apparently, I must have been exhausted as I woke up around 6:30 when the workers showed up, went to the bathroom, and laid back down. I dozed back off and managed to sleep through them sawing through concrete or something for at least another hour.

Day 8 – May 27, 2025 – Venice/Conegliano, Italy We had an early start with a quick breakfast before heading out the door for the train to Conegliano, which is about an hour ride up into prosecco land. You could start seeing vines as we got closer. We met up with our guide, Carlo, and