Stories of me: Tuscany Part 1

On to the trip! I have broken the posts up as to not bore myself and you.

Erin, Jennifer and I flew into Rome and landed Thursday morning. Abbey picked us up at the airport (on time!) and we started the drive to our villa. Side Note- Abbey has been appointed to pick me up from airports all over the world (LA, Vegas, and Dublin) and has been at least 2 hours late for each of these pick-ups. Her saving grace was that she flew into Rome so her flight made her on time. MOVING ON... Abbey drove and I was the navigator in our miniature car. I can read maps. BUT, Abbey had Google Maps directions (no pictures) printed out and the Italian road signs are not the same. We started out on what should have been about a 3 hour drive. The entire drive, it just didn't feel right. We weren't seeing any of the signs we were supposed to see. After many turn-arounds, stops, attempting to iPhone map, we realized we were on the wrong highway! Luckily, Italy isn't very wide so even though we were driving up the wrong side of the boot, it wasn't horrific. We got to our Villa about 10PM and had dinner there.

We ate Caprese at every meal!

Friday morning, we woke up to see our amazing villa in the sunlight!

The place was more of a compound of villas. You can see Abbey in our doorway. We met 2 older couples from Georgia staying there too!

The main office of the compound

Villa pool and views!

We started off to find wineries! Apparently we have some issues with directions because we started out the wrong direction down the highway. We couldn't figure out why we weren't seeing any wineries! This was one random one we found that was obviously someone's personal winery.

Olive oil farm! I bought a bottle for myself and my parents!

Once we went down the right road, we found this AMAZING winery in the Chianti region. Click to see their website here! I ordered wine and had it shipped home. I'm not a white wine drinker, but they claimed to have the best Sauvignon Blanc in the world. The Prosecco (Italian version of Champagne) was amazing too. I ordered a Chianti Classico and Prosecco for myself, and the SB for Brooke. When I go back to the area (yes, when), I will be staying at this winery.