Toscana

I am "home" from my first weekend trip!!! It went pretty well and I had a good time! We left Friday at 7:30 am. We were almost late but we took a quick (and I mean quick) cab ride to the meeting place and it was just fine. Our bus driver made a wrong turn and added about an hour to our trip. Awesome, thanks for that bus driver. Our first stop was a little town called Pienza. Here we saw the duomo and had an amazing view.





This town is famous for its pecorino which is cheese made from sheep's milk. The more you let this cheese age, the stronger it gets. In Pienza we had a cheese tasting.



It was actually really good. I really did like it.

After that we went to a vineyard where we had a wine tasting lunch. It was absolutely beautiful!


There were roses on every row. If the roses are dead/dying that means there is something wrong with the grapes. Clever!



After the tasting we had a tour of the vineyard. Where we saw the fermentation room and the wine barrels.





The next day we went to Pitigliano which is built on a cliff kinda. Here are pictures!







Sunday we spent the day at the beach laying out and then came back home.

Things I learned:
*Italians are never on time
*I still love the beach
*The weather here is unpredictable!