Delicious Italy

If you are looking for directions along the Orcia Valley Wine Route, make sure you ask for La Strada del Vino Orcia. And don't forget that this is one to do by car, or at the very least by bike.

We have witnessed pitiful sights of straggly lines of people walking the Val d'Orcia between such towns as Radicofani and Castiglione d'Orcia.

Although the classic Tuscan scenery is stunning, the distances are huge and you will be baked like cotto toscano if you decide to hike it in summer. 

This is the second of 2 articles discovering the Valdambra in Chianti. 

Sufficiently loosened up by the sun and wine tasting proposed by Villa a Sesta, it was time for the Food Bloggers Contest. 

The group was divided by lots into 3 and each assigned a free apartment and kitchen at Tenuta di Lupinari. 

Camilla and Antonella then pointed to a table lined with covered baskets and told us we were to make one antipasti and one primo .... 

The Tuscany coast running situated between the Argentario and extending as far as Livorno is better known to many as the Etruscan coast.

It is so-called due to the Etruscan mariners who built their main ports here and it is still possible to find pieces of broken amphora on the beach after a heavy swell or winter storm.

The mariners would simply dump broken merchandise into the sea before sailing into port.