I’ve sort of gone off Siena lately. I blame the people who call their babies after the city… or the over-the-top and endlessly gushy romantic comedies that have been filmed there.

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 [...]

No, I’m not practicing the alphabet. That’s what one American tourist exclaimed as he was admiring the Leaning Tower of Pisa one sunny afternoon.
No joke, I was there admiring the tower too and I heard him… I guess some people express their love in weird ways…

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