At the beginning of May Lindsay and I went on a holiday to the Tuscany region in Italy together with our friends Johanna and Eckhard. We spent one night at Lake Garda on the way down, then stayed in a holiday house in the North of the Tuscany region for the first week and in the South for the second week. Below, you can see the first holiday house, which had really friendly hosts.
They shared their tasty stone oven pizzas with us and invited us to a real tuscan style dinner. The house was in the middle of nowhere, reachable only via a windy and bumpy gravel road (poor baby...). The closest city was Volterra, which you can see on the photos below.
From our holiday house we did took several trips into the surrounding area: We went to Pisa, where we got stuck in a massive traffic jam and took the obligatory 'holding-the tower' photo. We visited Lucca and the Carrara Marble Quarries, where we did a tour into an underground quarry. Lindsay even took some marble home as a souvenir.
We also went to San Gimignano, Florence and did a lot of driving around on the narrow windy streets of the Tuscany. Unfortunately the weather wasn't always as good as we had hoped, especially considering we left behind incredible summer weather in Munich. But we made the most of it.
When we were staying in the South of the Tuscany region we went to Porto San Stefano, which is a little fisher's town at the coast, to the thermal pools of Saturnia and several little medieval looking towns.
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