Under the Tuscan Sun

My last 12 days in Tuscany, Florence and Pisa was an eye-opener. For once, we really had the chance to mingle with the locals, to experience speaking Italian to locals who do not know English and to practice hand-signals. The whole trip was refreshing yet exhausting. The whole site was so big, we met so many parties and our client, we struggled over choosing a site, walked 14km around the site and we experienced a bus strike. However, it is an experience of a lifetime and all the Italians who helped us, they're simply wonderful. Monte di Fo (Mountain of Fire),14km from Barberino
The villa that we stayed in at Camp Il Sergente
Expecting sunny Italy? Think again. The bus ride down and a view of the Tuscan Landscape
Little town of Barberino di Mugello, where everybody knows your name. We were the only foreigners there.

My favourite.

Typical Italian-Tuscan landscape A handy way to travel around a small town
The roundabout. A nice play of faces from different angles
The cemetary near the lake. It evokes an eerie feeling

The Lago di Bilancino. It's massive and beautiful.This is my first and last steak. It was 90% raw, oozing with bloody gravy, but lovely anyway. Bistecchia Florentine. Wished I had red wine with this

How beautiful our Youth is
That’s always flying by us!
Who’d be happy, let him be so:
Nothing’s sure about tomorrow.

Lorenzo De Medici (1449-1492) ~A Song For Bacchus~