Author: Chris Bounds

We left Quirky Town with only an adequate breakfast, but it was nice to get out into the countryside. We were moving towards the border between Tuscany and Lazio, and the dark tufa country...

We are staying in what we are styling “Quirky Town”, after a short (8 km) walk this afternoon. We took the advice in our book and spent the morning exploring Sorano, especially the Orsini...

This afternoon we sat in our room, high up above Sorano in the fortress, and watched a violent storm lash the medieval town. It has been that kind of day, filled with unusual discoveries...

The trip here was a bit crackers – our driver, whose name escapes me, claimed to be fluent in Japanese and had very limited English. His Mercedes wagon had a GPS that seemed more...

As it turned out, we might have been better getting the agency to pick us up from Siena, because it’s closer to Pitigliano than Florence. It was lovely, however, to reacquaint ourselves with the...