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September 1999

Greece (Nafplio), Crete (Matala and Rethymnon), Italy (Tuscany and the Cinque Terre), Monaco and the South of France.

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when we shopped at the San Gimignano supermarket.

The next morning we saw the place in the daylight. It was unbelievable. Like heaven. I will entertain a personal request for the name of this place. Please include a police background check and a list of Nobel Prize awards you have received. We met two nice couples, Andre and Sandra and Hartwig and Enis, at breakfast. They were all from Germany. Andre had some currency he carried with him to remind him not to change money on the black market. The currency he had purchased had larger denomination numbers pasted on the corners and I didn’t notice it until he pointed it out. He said he had lost some money but learned a valuable lesson. Most of the people we met at the vineyard would go off somewhere in Tuscany every morning and come back at night. The owner booked tables for people at local restaurants for dinner and reserved tickets at museums in Florence. It was a great place, we fell in love with it. Did I say the Chianti was good? There were three dogs, one is deaf, and a cat.

One thing about Tuscany and the hill towns, the whole town closes for lunch for a couple of hours, every day, you have to get an early start. Parking was never a problem, you parked outside the town and walked into it. Some places had restricted parking such as the "Disco Zones" where you were expected to have a parking disc on your dashboard that indicates the time you left the vehicle. We have found you can write the time on a piece of paper (24 hour time) and put the paper on your dashboard. We don’t guarantee this will work in every town.

You can walk into most of the wine shops in the town and sample the wine. You can also walk around the wine cellars like this one in the Chianti country.

One day we drove to Montpulciano and Montalcino in the south of Tuscany. In Montpulciano we found a real nice café(Coffee Poliziano); high up in the town. They had a balcony overlooking the valley below. ...