I read this article and found it I agreed with it: “Tuscany is one of those places in the world, that once you have visited it, you are bitten by the “bug” and somehow you always end up comparing future destinations to it, usually unfavourably. Somehow there is nowhere else in the world it is [...]

“Tuscany is mostly rural, ranging from snaking, sandy roads leading to rusty-coloured farmhouses in a landscape interspersed with moss-coated castles.  It is easy to see how poets such as Byron and Shelley were inspired by Tuscany. A fairytale vista of dark green cypress tree-lined countryside and ramshackle turrets, it is a place which can make [...]