Won’t believe some of the things I have seen during these days.
Paradise was Villa Capovento, it’s a Tuscan house turned into a hotel with only double rooms. Dinners are not included but it is so worth staying there for dinner. We used the Villa as a base to go wine tasting.
They are very friendly and generous in Chianti, tasting are usually for free as long as you buy a few bottles. With the new flying rules they also ship wine all over the world. We have stocked up, some bottles to save and some to enjoy right now and then some to give away. We bought among other things 12 bottles of Prosecco and some Amarone, some I will give to sis some I will save.
While staying at Villa Capovento we did several one day excursions: San Giminiano – where they have the worlds best ice cream and I am not the one to argue, Siena – to hot, Perugia – we watched the football game: Spain – Germany and I got a parking ticket.
After Capovento we drove to Florence – one of my favorite towns. We stayed at a hotel, Hotel Bellichini, right next to the river Arno and more importantly minutes away from my temple the Savatore Ferragamo store on Piazza Sta Trinità . As I was wondering around Florence on my own, Mr S was getting his hair cut. This Italian guy walks up to me and asks for directions. It turns out that he has lived in Sweden for a while and wants to buy me a cup of coffee. Ok, I suppose it was meant as a compliment but seriously some people don’t know when to stop. He asked for my number and to get off easy I gave him a faked number. Fortunately I didn’t run into him anymore after that.
Just like last summer we had Bistecca Floretina at restaurant La Posta. It was just as good as I remembered it. We met some friends from Stockholm so we had dinner with them, J&J and their two kids.
It was nice to meet them but when they left I was so glad that I don’t have kids.
Then we drove on to visit Mr S’ gorgeous Italian friend J-P and his family in Modena. We ended up staying at he Best Western Libertà for 4 nights. One morning as Mr S and JP went to check out cars (and I mean CARS: Lamborghini and Maserati) I stayed in at the hotel and ended up watching old episodes of Tyra’s show on YouTube.
I had no idea of the level of insanity there is in the world we live in. People who claim the preach the words of God who loves all but they hate some many things and are just so consumed with hate that they don’t just see how stupid they come of.
Why some are so in to what other do in bed it’s beyond me. I don’t care what you want to do in your bed if I’m not in it (and of course consenting adults etc etc) If it be one person or ten: to each his own…
After Modena we turned back to Rome, stopping one day in Civitavecchia for a last swim since it was really hot, some day almost 37 degrees Celcius.
We stayed at the Sun Park hotel. The room was great, nice swimming pool but the restaurant was a bad joke.
I ordered grilled tuna with zucchini and onions – simple and easy, or at least so I thought. It was probably the worst I have ever taste. Just looking at the plate was a nightmare. I know my sense of proportions some times is a bit off but to ruin a perfectly fine tuna steak like that should be against all laws. The tuna was grey, the zucchini was gray and the onions were gray. There was no real way of telling what was what.
And then the head waitor asked if I enjoyed my meal and I answered no his reaction was OK and that was it.
I am going to send a mail the management of the restaurant….
Then we drove to Rome. I drove but I refuse to drive in the city. I did drive in Florence, against all better judgement. This time it went quite well, the GPS helped
Once in Rome we checked in to the hotel and then dropped the car off at the rental place at the airport.
Rome was really hot, around + 35 degrees. We went sightseeing and shopping.
The last night we had dinner at the Imago at the Hassler. It’s a luxury hotel located above the Spanish Stairs. The food was absolutely fab. And the view is amazing. If you’re ever in Rome the Imago is well worth a visit, expensive but great.
All in all this has been a very good vacation, but expensive so now it’s is detox both physical and financial. We are after all goint to New York in a month and I still havenät found a place for us to stay.
