We were getting a bit tired of the hot weather and the city, so decided to head out a day early to go to a Tuscan farm house with a pool on our way to Florence. Gorgeous drive - and so nice to be an air-conditioned vehicle (which despite a reservation, took 90-minutes to pick up. The Italian way!)
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| Fields of sun flowers along the way |
Our farm house directions included the GPS coordinates, which took us down a dirt two-track. The property was an 'Agriturismo' property. We loved it! It would be a great place to rent the entire property for a large group.
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| Caden and Gia enjoying the hammock while we check in |
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| Gia's stuck |
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| We had the top floor. That is our dusty car in the foreground. |
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| The house also had bikes available. Caden and Lily headed off straightaway. |
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| That little house behind Caden is an apartment for two that the proprietor, Sara, described as 'very romantic'. |
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| Lily is in front of Caden, but blends in a bit to the building. |
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| Looking out towards the pool with the village Cortona in the background. |
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| Looking out the front door. |
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| The kids room upstairs. |
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| The stairs up. |
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| Too cute! |
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| The pink bedroom |
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| The pink bath |
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| The blue bedroom |
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| The kitchen |
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| we were surrounded by fields of sunflowers |
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| The house had a large common recreation room. The kids, especially Gia, were thrilled to have some toys! (Notice Gia's cute dress with the little rope belt Lily and I bought at Zara in Rome the night before) |
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| I was soooo excited about the ping pong, but we didn't end up getting a chance to play. |
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| Looking back at the drive. |
The first order of business was a swim in the pool, which we had to ourselves. The water was perfect! It was poolside that we decided to book another couple of nights at a Tuscan house with a pool (our room here was already booked), and to cancel Florence. Tough call, as we were excited to spend a few days in the city and had a great property booked, but we were loving the Tuscan countryside too much to leave.
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| Notice Corey pretending to be a surf board for the kids :) |
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| Love this shot! |
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| Super Lily! |
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| Singing - Cheer, cheer for old Notre Dame... |
Sara helped us with reservations at a restaurant in Cortona with good meat. Enough said.
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| The uphill walk to the piazza |
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| One of the pretty doors we passed along the way. So many gorgeous doors. |
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| Lily at dinner. Notice the older Italian lady over her soldier sitting outside to cool from the heat. A few more ladies joined her as the evening went on. |
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| Gia's polar bear Arctic enjoying some wine as we celebrated her birthday. |
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| Lily writing me a message, as we could only communicate by writing per her rules, as we left the delicious Trattoria Dordano. Caden had sausages, Corey had pork with truffles, I had spinach ravioli with truffles, Lily had porkchops. and Gia had chicken. We all shared some grilled vegetables and fried porcini mushrooms. The food was sensational! |
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| Cure motorbike lined in corks we passed. |
We made our usual gelato stop and then sat on the church steps to enjoy the scene.
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| Caden pouting that they did not have milkshakes '_' |
We walked around a bit before heading back to the house for a night swim :)
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| This little Italian girl looked so sweet on the steps I had to steal a photo. |
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| The view looking out from the city walls. |
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| The walk down to the car |
The sign for our house at the gate - Terra di Cortona
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| Gia heading up to get her suit on |
Before swimming we decided to go check out the sunflower patch outside of the gate.
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