Marvellous Tuscany - Montepulciano and Sienna
Chester again here, writing from Florence. We've been in Tuscany for a full week since leaving Rome, and it has been a perfect next note in our Italian journey - restful, beautiful and relaxed. Montepulciano After our early morning visit at the Vatican, we picked up a rental car from Rome and white-knuckled our way through Rome and onto the autostrade bound for Tuscany. We were both apprehensive about driving in Italy, but with Nikita navigating and myself behind the wheel and a bit more aggressiveness in asserting ourselves and our vehicle in traffic, we found that driving was not as bad as we imagined. Plus, distances here are relatively short so you never have to drive the mega-distances we are used to on the west coast. As such, it took us just over two hours to reach our B&B below the hilltop town of Montepulciano, where we would be staying for five nights. The B&B was part of a working winery - Manvi - so we were surrounded by rolling vineyards and had a beau...
