Villa Caprera
We are here for 5 nights to recuperate from a busy traveling schedule, which continues next week with 3 nights in Rome, 2 in Rimini & then 4 nights near Vicenza! This place is beautiful. The idyllic Tuscan home on a hill with its surrounding acreage. I compare it to the plantation mansions of the South. On almost every hilltop there is a set of huge block buildings with fields of green, both grass & forest. Our home is known as "Villa Caprera" which sits just south of the main road opposite Siena.
We didn't do much all day: sleep in, explore forest with Cannon, homework, plan trip, blog, ball in the yard & some laundry. We have use of 2 washing machines but rarely do you find a dryer machine so most of the work is hanging the clothes. Stacia scouted out a restaurant for dinner while Carley, who has not been feeling well, stayed home with Kyra & Cannon for pasta, French fries & gelato.
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| we are staying on the 2nd level of the house on the left |
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| the master bedroom sits by itself on the 3rd level |
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| our private entrance with stairs to the 2nd floor |
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| dining room from the top of the stairs |
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| Sydney & Carley's bedroom with rafters not quite 6 feet high! |
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| Cannon with his bamboo stick he found in the forest |
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| view of the patio from the living room |
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| the cool folding door to the master bedroom |
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| the master bedroom with Siena in the distance |
Dinner in Siena
We walked through the old city in what must have been the non-touristy section since it was pretty drab & we didn't see any postcard shops. We found the restaurant by 7:15 but they don't open until 7:30 (like most places in Italy!) so we made another loop around the boring block. We'll have to go back into town another day & see the bright & glamorous section of town.
Ristorante la Sosta di Violante. Dinner was excellent! Fried cheese balls & filo dough-wrapped artichoke towers for appetizers, pumpkin lasagna for Stacia, cheese filled gnocchi for Sydney, beef spaghetti for Avery & Fiorentina steak strips for Paul. For dessert: chocolate flan with a warm gooey center & ricotta cream cheese with strawberry sauce which was even better than the chocolate! On the way back through town we found one gelato place still open so we had to get some, the perfect ending to a relaxing day.
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| old part of Siena |
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| the restaurant with seating on the street |
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| restaurant front door right at 7:30 |
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| pasta fest |
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| cool stairway wall with gelato in hand |
You have really covered a lot of ground in Italy - quickly. Enjoy this interesting compact and city of interesting rivalries. Intercity competitions. We only stayed two nights.
ReplyDeleteWhat a fantastic resting place you found. And with a washing machine!
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