Day 129 Under The Tuscan Stars...

Saturday 28/07/2018 Day (Day 42 SZ) Karma Borgo Di Colleoli Via Panoramica 20 56036 Palaia Colleoli (PI) Tuscany Italy Pisa

Up this AM to nit to bad a night and some goodies waiting on the table for us... I stashed them for morning tea.. we had our breakies and then set about getting the baggage to the car... today is a challenge as there is actually no where to park... There is a cement walkway from the very busy main Hwy to the front door if the units... John said he was going to park there....all I could see was the car crashing down 3 stories below to someone’s front door on the below ground apartment..
He suggested maybe he could just park sideways as close to it as possible... I really didn’t think it would hold a car... I might be wrong but better safe than sorry...

So that’s what he did and in between cars flying by in the Hwy we put stuff into the car bit by bit.. I am not sad to leave Pompeii it is such a dirty over crowded place... the only reason you would come here is to see the ruins which actually look cleaner and neater than the rest of the town....

Off up the Hwy..this is a long day of travel and we aren’t going off the Hwy today as too many K’s to do.....a stop for morning tea.... didn’t have our goodies from breaky....had something else.... a stop for lunch just mayhem where we pulled up just 100’s of people all trying to get something to eat... I hadn’t done it before but today I had actually taken some bread and toasted a sandwich each with ham, cheese and salami, am I glad I did..all we had to do was by a cuppa and have our pre made Sanger’s... only issue is no where other than inside or attached to the Autostrada’s can you sit to eat.... they just don’t supply roadside tables and chairs... but they do have gutters and that’s where we sat.... a bit sad but only choice and to be honest there is no way we would have tilted into their restaurants or fast food spots... the crowds were unreal....

Our last stop before arriving at Karma Borgo Colleoli was a little village up the road Palaia... what a little delight was a very short visit... hoping to go back and have a good look.... we had walked around, trying find an ATM..... John did find one in a very obscure spot right at the end of the street.... near nothing really....

Then back into the car to our resort... it is set on hills, not a valley like in had in my mind....in fact all this area is hills and small barrow country roads... bitumen, bu narrow and the greenery hangs very, very close so on coming traffic is often right on you before you realise it....

The resorts main reception is on a corner opposite an old church, a restaurant across the road from it and a smaller community they call a Borgo down the road... there seems to be restaurants and BnB’s dotted here there and everywhere all hidden behind heaps of greens of olive trees 🌲pine trees , and grape 🍇 vines...... plus all the other creepers and climbers around.... it very, very lush just in the area... further down the valley it’s actually very dry looking.....

The resort won’t allow cars into it, so we had to unpack all our goodies and a porter with his golf buggy bought all the suit we are in.... this is the main Villa as you come into the resort after a long line of beautiful trees... the main building is part of this cluster of lovely old buildings that is part of a Medieval castle dating back to the 17th century... Our suite is very spacious and roomy, only downside was the fact you can’t self cater in these rooms...in the units you can but not the suits... a huge big 4 poster wrought Iron bed... lovely old dark wood furniture and a huge bathroom, with a fantastic view from the loo.... I am over the moon, it is just lovely.... the only other downside was the fact I had so much cold stuff and the fridge in the room was weeny as...

So on a chance they might give us another I asked for another fridge and a microwave...they came up with the fridge only small, but between the 2 I could put the cold stuff in....

We settled in wen for a look, then headed over to have dinner at the lovely restaurant... Meal tasted not too bad, but I really had some issues eating it... so,e days are good some no so good... today is one of those days...

They have a huge weekend apparently as Andrea Bocelli is singing and a lot of the guests are staying over to attend his concert... so the restaurant as packed and there are people everywhere... the car park which is in an olive grove next to another chapel is also packed to the hilt... interesting as it feels like we are in the Bush not in a main busy section of Tuscany..but I don’t think anywhere in Tuscany is the Bush is all go, go, go especially in the summer season...もっと詳しく