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Italian Island Hopping

A real benefit of living in Florence is the ease with which you can explore other areas of Italy.  For all the things that are wrong, that don’t work, that disappoint, there is one constant about the place.  It is a beautiful country.  Spectacular shoreline and a lot of it, mountain ranges, a few large […]

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Travels from Florence

OSTERIA LA PAGLIETTA, SAN POLO IN CHIANTI True tuscan country, only about a half hour out of Florence, San Polo is less like a small town and rather more like a loosely connected collection of private country houses, vineyards and olive groves….all nestled into surprisingly steep hills.  The scenery is spectacular.  The closest real town […]

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