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 [...]

Le Cascate del Mulino
You really never know what to expect when you visit the Maremma.
So little is known about this corner of Southern Tuscany. First time tourists almost always miss it. Instead it’s often the domain of seasoned travellers who have already seen everything else Italy has to offer and are looking for more. More often than not, they’re [...]

Scansano is a small city situated between the hills of the Tuscan Maremma, a few kilometres from the city of Grosseto.
I first came across this interesting little hub of culture and passion on the back of a bottle of wine a friend gave me. It was a red wine known as the Morellino di Scasano and it was good… so [...]

Immersed in the landscape of the Maremman countryside sits Sorano, a charming old town that’s been around since the Middle Ages.
Sorano was one of the first towns I visited when I arrived in the Maremma and I’ve completely fallen in love with it.
I just can’t help going back to its gorgeous streets and reliving the beauty and charm that only [...]

Located near the ancient town of Saturnia, the Terme di Saturnia Spa Complex is the reason why celebrities and the world’s rich flock to the Maremma.
Now I know I say every town in the Maremma is ancient, but this time I really mean it (not that I didn’t mean it all those other times too!). Saturnia is one of the [...]

Capalbio is this region’s trump card, quite literally. If you are looking for a town that has it all, then Capalbio is right up your alley.
And I’m not making this stuff up, Capalbio was recently awarded the 5 sails by Legambiente, a Italian organization which focuses on the environment. It’s possibly the only town in the Maremma [...]

I stumbled across Bolsena Lake as a complete accident, as usual. I was looking for something to do one boring afternoon and someone suggested I check out Bolsena Lake. The hook? It’s one of the few crater lakes that exist in the entire world.

That was all I needed to hop into the car and drive off to [...]