Montemerano’s Maremma in Musica Festival is one of the most beautiful and stirring events held in the Tuscan Maremma.

As the weather gets cooler over here, my mind has turned to soup. Autumn to me is all about seasonal zuppe filled with all the vegetables you can wrangle up from your courtyard garden… or the supermarket, I’m not fussed

It sure as hell wasn’t like anything out of Audrey Hepburn’s fabled movie Roman Holiday … me riding a Vespa that is.

“Vivamus mentre stiamo vivendo”
At the moment, we in Manciano are getting ready for the summer festival Vivamus.
Vivamus is a festival for anyone who has ever dreamt of living the Tuscan lifestyle. It’s a taste of the traditions, a chance to experience the emotions and, of course, an excuse to indulge in the food (and wine!) [...]

A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned that me and my husband-to-be Giulio spent an afternoon trying to find the incredible stone chapel of Poggio Conte.
Built by Benedictine Cistercian monks-turned-hermits in the Middle Ages, this stone chapel is hidden in thick bush near Ischia di Castro, in Southern Tuscany and is supposed to be one hell of a site to [...]

Today’s post isn’t about a place as such, sorry to disappoint, it’s about a person who I think is the living embodiment of country Tuscany.
The ultimo buttero