If you have no interest in Twilight look away now!
But Montepulciano is an absolutely gorgeous town regardless of Twilight… you’ll miss out hearing all about if you look away!!!

My goodness! Sometimes I feel like all I ever write about is Florence!
But fear not avid reader, if you exist, I’m not always going to blog about Florence, it’s just that I had to tell you this story.

Back when I first arrived in Tuscany as a naive 18-year-old fresh out of a very conservative, all-girls’-school in Australia a couple of [...]

Obviously Florence is beautiful. You hardly need me to tell you that! But it’s also home to an incredible annual chocolate festival that will make you abandon restraint and embrace gluttony!!!

I found out about this fiera del cioccolato by accident. I was Googling chocolate festivals in the Maremma, where I live, and was heartbroken to learn that the Grosseto festival [...]

It sure as hell didn’t start like Under the Tuscan Sun.
I may have had all the clichés that accompany your typical romance film heroine. Young, unattached and female? Check! Alone in a foreign country with lofty dreams about changing the world? Check! Stupidly unable to resist the wiles of a charming local boy? Check!

But as promising [...]