I Could Write a Book. . .

The book someone should write:  hidden Tuscany.  I won't.  I don't have the patience for details about hotels and restaurants and mileage from here to there.  But Tuscany is pieno, full, of places of secret loveliness, interest, good food, and  stunning landscape.  People often say to me, "Tuscany is full of tourists."  Or, "We've been to Tuscany three times."  Tuscany is large and varied and if you had two lives you couldn't begin to know it.

For example, the quick two-day trip Ed and I just ...