The new girl had arrived in Villa Fontelunga on Sunday and Tiia was about to leave on the following Sunday so on Monday all four of us decided to meet. We finally went to Monte San Savino for an ice cream (zabaglione and pistachio for Noora and pannacotta and berry-yoghurt for Siru) and afterwards we […]

In Italy we have eaten more fruits than probably ever in our lives and when we saw a pineapple waiting on a market’s shelf we had to bring it home with us. We prepared half of it the way our teacher taught us to and put the other half in the freezer in pieces. On […]

Noora had bought new jogging shoes just the previous day, so naturally Siru would need some, too. She had borrowed Marta’s old shoes, but they were a bit too big. We returned to Valdichiana and swore to ourselves we wouldn’t visit it this often – 3 times in just 2 days. Naturally they had to […]

As the access to the Internet has been limited as well as the amount of our free time, we haven’t been able to update the blog in what seems like eternity. We’re still alive, though, and we’ll update a few weeks at time. On Tuesday we picked up Noora’s parents from Foiano della Chiana and […]

Marta had booked a trip to Morocco for her and her husband for their anniversary and her mother-in-law was going to be looking after the kids during their stay. We had promised to sleep there so she would feel safer. Marta had also just gotten three lovely kittens so we were more than happy to […]

The week began with suffocating heat (over 34 degrees) in Rome and it was hard to get a good night’s sleep. Siru had determined she’d like to visit Colosseum and Pisa’s leaning tower while in Italy, so that was naturally on our sightseeing list. We also wanted to see Fontana Di Trevi, the Trevi fountain, […]

Although there has been a slight delay in our updates (4 weeks behind, oops…) we’ve continued our lives here in Tuscany. Hopefully you’ll get the posts about the following weeks soon and we could keep up with the blog.   On Monday we went straight from work to Castiglion Fiorentino – it was the last […]

Almost all of the apartments in our agriturismo are named after local animals – Lepre (the hare), Upupa (kind of a woodpecker), Gazza (the magpie) and Istrice (the porcupine). This week we finally managed to get a good look at Upupa the bird. We had seen it before, but didn’t realize it because its’ feathers […]

We’ve had a lovely lady from USA (she was born in England, though) for the past three weeks. She’s been here trying out the recipes of Fattoria Santa Vittoria and writing them down since Marta has dreamt of a cooking book for sale and gifts. The other day they were making hand-made pasta with Marta’s […]

On Monday morning we had to wave goodbye to Venice. We took a train from Venezia Mestre to Venezia S. Lucia and from there a straight line to Arezzo. On Wednesday we had our friend take us to Castiglion Fiorentino to a pub. The night was dark but every now and then the lightning lit […]