Poggiarelo-Ripa

After a pleasant, fairly uneventful flight from Toronto-Montreal I arrived in Rome to one of the busiest airports I’ve been in for many years. Thousands upon thousands of people passing through customs and security, but it all managed to work very well. Waited for 3 hours to meet the WestJet flight from Calgary and finally saw the smiling faces of Lisa, Rich and Sharon. After a bit of chaos at the car rental, we were on our way. A 3 hour journey north to Siena, along beautiful scenery that you couldn’t see because of the high guardrails (we figure that’s intentional because you certainly don’t want to have those Italian drivers distracted!!), the winding roads left Lisa and I a little green 🤢 and Rich very happy to stop driving for the day. A quick shop at the local Penny’s store got us a few things for a makeshift dinner that night. We arrived in Poggiarelo-Ripa and were greeted to a beautiful villa overlooking the Tuscany vista, with pear, apple and olive trees, horses, chickens, dogs, roosters right on our doorstep. A hodgepodge dinner and then exhaustion set in and it was off to bed….more tomorrow when we visit Siena!Läs mer