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| We flew in to Rome and then immedialy took the train to Arezzo to meet with Chiara. Chiara's family was exceptionally gracious and welcomed us with open arms. They arranged a nice, old farm house for us and we used this as our "base of operations" to visit the surrounding areas. We rented a car, drove around Tuscany and saw Arezzo and Sienna and generally toured the region and took in the beautiful countryside. | ||||||||||||||
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| We stayed in a several centuries old farm house at the outskirts of Arezzo. It was at the top of a small hill and had a GREAT view of the surrounding countryside! Thanks, Chiara!!! | ||||||||||||||
| This is Chiara (standing, center) and her family. They had us over for several meals, which were all wonderful. Chiara's Dad makes GREAT lemoncello and her Mom was a wonderful cook. | ||||||||||||||
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| One of the many beautiful views of the countryside of Tuscany! This one shows a set of grape vines in the foreground. | ||||||||||||||
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| This is the view from Chiara's house. Chiara's family has a few acres and grows lots of stuff, inlcuding olives, passion fruit, and grapes. Nice digs, eh? | ||||||||||||||
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This is a shot of the main square in Sienna, which turned out to be a very nice, smaller town in Tuscany. Dead center in this picture is a fountain and surrounding the square were a series of cafes. We ended up eating a couple of blocks back from the square & had a nice, leisurely lunch with plenty of red wine!
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Below is a view of the monestary we visited with Chiara. |
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| One of the days, Chiara took us up to a local monestary with this wonderful view. | ||||||||||||||