in case you missed our last videos we made our way back to a trusted house Sitters in
one of our favorite countries Italy after living it up in Arrezo where we enjoyed an
amazing wine tasting we made our way to Cortona where we spent the last 16 days living in
a Tuscan Villa this is what one of those days looks like
Good morning from Cortona, Italythis is where Under the Tuscan Sun was filmed and the other
day we got to actually go to villa laura which is the Under the Tuscan sun Villa like legitimately
The Villa that they filmed at it was so fancy I think it's like three thousand dollars a
night to stay there and we got to go have a glass of wine for free thanks to our beautiful
host one of the most beautiful towns in Italy definitely one of the oldest too it's from
the old Etruscan period and it's really important for the Etruscan in history that looks so
good
we've been staying in a villa trusted house sitters has been amazing we've had some really
amazing dogs we've been there and really amazing people too but it's meant we've not made the
way up to Cortona too much just because the roads are really thin and scary and we wanted
to get some work done so it's nice to come in and this is the first place we've been
in quite a while where we've started to hear heaps of Foreign Accents heaps of American
accents lots of American tourists here which is really nice it's really nice change and
I was looking up like what you need to know as a touristic Cortana and one of the first
things was like it's on a hill you're going to be on a hill you'll be walking up and down
a hill and it's right
there's a dragon
how cool I feel like stupid saying I'm surprised by how hilly it is because literally the town
is perched on top of the hill so I don't know why we're shocked but damn my legs are sore
just steeper than I thought it was going to be I think even after all the warnings
I think it's time for an Aparativo
cocktails were a bit too expensive so a beer it is
I can't believe that we've been in Tuscany for two weeks I think this is the longest
we've been anywhere the whole time we've been on the road so nice but these are not what
days look like
every morning we take this walk with the dogs this is definitely the coldest morning we've
had to do it I'm still in shorts and t-shirt but probably shouldn't be
...Stell..
this morning it's freezing cold
but we are going where we can see some weird looking sheep maybe a horse or a pig
we'll be doing this walk for two weeks you think we get over it but it's just so weird
we're used to the short little Tails
it's thursday so..
Camucia puts on these markets it's right near Cortona and right near where we're staying
so we try to get here each Thursday it's really fun though they sell basically everything
clothes food knitting supplies very very local very local thank you
the hope is that we can pick up some like fresh pasta or something for dinner tonight
but it looks like it's all clothes bags very local
I feel like we're definitely missing southeast Asia because we thought that this was going
to be more of like a food market like we had so many times there there is places selling
these amazing looking porchetta sandwiches but they're a bit outside of our budget and
we do have food at home so the responsible thing is to eat there
some days you drink nice aparativo in town some days you drink box wine
not quite the villa la ripa experience but still pretty good every now and then you'd
come across places that just feel that little bit more comfortable or that little bit more
homey and that's definitely this place for us the only beings whose space we're in are
these cute things
normally at this time of day we are having appetisers and we have the best view to do
it it's just this backyard of this villa it looks so amazing we do have a plan for pasta
tonight so we're gonna eat this quickly and then cook up some pasta not any pasta like
the local Tuscan style pasta apparently different parts of Italy have different Traditions when
it comes to Pasta the one we got today excuse me, Stelly, the one we're gonna have tonight
is the traditional Tuscan one so being in Tuscany I'm excited to try it look at this
cute girl awaiting her turn none for you buddy you want ham and cheese all right we got the
pasta from a shop called Conad which is like the local supermarket here where we also got
our box wine, which on review tastes amazing really good and it was a Euro the Box.
we're probably not doing the papadelle Justice by just chucking in some pesto sauce but our
host has this amazing olive oil and balsamic vinegar company so I figure if we just drizzle
some olive oil on there we can't go wrong
I apologize to all of the Italians I'm sure we're butchering papadeli but we're lazy
from a guy called Conrad down the street