We left San Marino in the bright sunshine of mid morning and started toward Asciano. This time we rerouted ourselves to go the most direct route and not the fastest so we saw many of the back roads of Italy as we passed through the mountains heading west into Tuscany.
While the speed limit is usually 90, I was not comfortable driving that speed most of the time. There are lots of switchbacks and sudden turns not to mention the little villages that we ran thru. As it was Saturday everyone with a bicycle was out and we had to go around groups of them. There were also plenty of motorcycles... all going very fast. Scary at times.
By early afternoon we arrived in the village of Asciano and connected with Barbara, the woman from the Agrotourismo office. The streets to there were not really meant for cars and at one point I'm pretty sure we were not meant to be driving there at all! Made it however.
She lead us out to the villa in her car.. we would not have found it even though we had an idea where it was from Google earth. Very nice with a great view of the country side.
We had to make a run back into the village (4km) to get some supplies and food and then settled in for the night. We shopped at a Coop store for food and wine for a couple of days. We have the place to ourselves for the weekend.
We watched the sun go down over Siena and drank a bottle of wine as we planned the rest of our week.
There is no phone or internet out here so we have to go into the village to get connected. Postings may be slower or bunched as a result.
While the speed limit is usually 90, I was not comfortable driving that speed most of the time. There are lots of switchbacks and sudden turns not to mention the little villages that we ran thru. As it was Saturday everyone with a bicycle was out and we had to go around groups of them. There were also plenty of motorcycles... all going very fast. Scary at times.
By early afternoon we arrived in the village of Asciano and connected with Barbara, the woman from the Agrotourismo office. The streets to there were not really meant for cars and at one point I'm pretty sure we were not meant to be driving there at all! Made it however.
She lead us out to the villa in her car.. we would not have found it even though we had an idea where it was from Google earth. Very nice with a great view of the country side.
We had to make a run back into the village (4km) to get some supplies and food and then settled in for the night. We shopped at a Coop store for food and wine for a couple of days. We have the place to ourselves for the weekend.
We watched the sun go down over Siena and drank a bottle of wine as we planned the rest of our week.
There is no phone or internet out here so we have to go into the village to get connected. Postings may be slower or bunched as a result.
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