This is a lovely canalside cafe in Venice
and this is the train station entrance right by the Canal:
The italian trains are very smart, very well equipped and cheap (just like UK rail!). They are also ticketless, so you book your ticket on the internet, get a reference number and give that to the guard on the train. he enters that into his PDA and confirms you have bought a ticket for this train. Very simple - why don't we do it like this?
The train journey took 2 hours from Venice to Florence (mostly flat plain but last 30 minites all tunnels underneath the mountains north of Florence).
Very hot when we got to Florence. Tessa and John arrived to pick us up. They had had a real problem finding their way into Florence to meet us, even with Helen's sat nav whixh has taken on an italian idiosyncratic mode and is happy to take the car down tiny backstreets and into prohibited zones!
About 40 minutes drive to the villa we are staying in. This is absolutely lovely, set in beautiful Chianti wine growing hills about 6 miles from the nearest town. The villa is divided into 4 appartments plus the owner's half. It has lovely gardens which are maintained as if they were english, great views, a swimming pool and lizzards! Here are some pictures:
Had a swim and then a great dinner on the terrace. Good night.
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