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I'm on my second day of Florence so far, I've been having an amazing time.
I actually caught a cold and it just overnight it got full-blown,
but that's not going to stop me.
I've always wanted to have my under the Tuscan sun moment.
However, a lot of travelers will tell you that.
You cannot explore a Tuscany without a car.
There's no public transportation to get around there to make my dream happen.
I am listing the help of the tour guide.
They will help me appreciate the good wine of the Tuscan region, as well as
explore the countryside, come along.
We are at the peninsula Michelangelo right now.
This is an amazing view.
I want it to come here.
I didn't know if I was going to get to you'll see David right there.
Michelangelo's David, when I was here in Florence, the first time.
This is the view I saw.
And this is what made me fall in love with Florence.
And Michelangelo's David,
one thing as a solo traveler, I always try to sit in the front seat these days,
especially when I'm in a group tour.
Apart on me.
Cause now there are three of us and I'm stuck in the middle.
We're now at them, San Giminano that took us about maybe 45
minutes to an hour to ride.
We've got two hours to explore this town on our own.
Take the hair down in romantic mode right now.
That's because he can't see the backside of my head.
Very unromantic there three times.
towers.
There used to be 72 to tell it's not very ornate.
It's still fairly simple, not too old though, because the type of thing
that they have is still kind of not
torture museum.
Sure.
Do get around.
I feel like this is the second torture museum I've seen and kind of
like a small little medieval town.
So maybe that's kind of a thing.
Yeah.
I think this is like a similar thing to the last one.
I was.
It's very similar to the one that I saw in San Marino is the must have
a chain, even with a stuffy nose.
I can smell the salami here.
It's like products from this region.
Maybe.
It's a good shop.
Actually,
there seems to be always a peak traffic time when all the tourists and all the
tourists come out at the same time.
And after this brush, That's when it clears.
And then the locals come out during that rush, it gets really congested.
And you start noticing all the shops that are meant for tourists.
They also tend to bring you out during the worst time to shoot.
Right now it's around 11 o'clock.
This is like the most horrific daylight hours to shoot under because
everything's so contracting so extreme.
So you came and see that Archway.
That's a good sign to always know the toilets
feeling.
how it would be different to drive on your own versus take a tour.
And there's around 20 people in our group.
I think it's around 20.
We have two bands.
I'm not sure how I feel about this experience yet when you're traveling
with tours is you're only seeing one time of the day in which it's really
overcrowded with other tourists.
You're not seeing the downtime when the tourists start there.
And it's just kind of like locals hanging out.
I think had I not seen so many tourists, I might have a slightly different
feeling about this medieval town.
But right now, it just looks like it's very touristy.
Okay.
Here we are in this little square here, surrounded by three towers.
Now in the past, the wealthy Italian families use the commission
towers as a sign or a symbol of their power, the bigger or the
taller you could make your tower.
The more influence you had, supposedly the more power you had.
Not sure what you can wish for or why it's like a wish.
Well,
sure.
It's a lot of money.
Just think, see all those coins through intuition worlds.
Oh.
Be able to.
really explore like the culture of the city.
We helpful for you to you to get like a day pass.
If you're like me, you don't know how much time see the city will have it.
You've got to just kind of like stick to the outer layers, but
even the outer layers carry a lot of character in distinction.
I think two hours gets you just the sample platter of figuring
out what the city is all about.
Even though I'm on a group tour, this part of exploring this
town is completely self-guided.
It's not always easy to figure things out on my own.
I hit a lot of misinterpretations.
I don't always understand what I'm seeing with guides or with locals.
You can get so much more of an insight and appreciation when you learn about it,
whether you are someone who needs a little helping hand who needs the information
behind you, or you're just someone who wants your freedom to explore the place at
your own leisure, then all of it's good.
Back in the van.
I'm in the vineyards of La Morainaia.
There is a family that owns this vineyard.
Everything here is organic.
They create their own.
In their facility where they do wine tastings.
no, I'm not gonna lie, but Italian food vocabulary is a little above me and
beyond me, I'm used to street food.
There's a lot of interesting intricacies of Italian food that I didn't know about.
And I appreciate so much more after learning.
There's a lot of rules.
It seems with Italian food, because there's such a high quality being put
into the food like balsamic vinegar and how that can be paired with
desserts or with different cheeses.
The difference between parmigiano Reggiano and Parmesan cheese to understand the
processing or the aging of things, or even the certification that goes on.
That's involved in putting your product out there.
All of these things are just things that I didn't really know about
the sweet tomato sauce on this pasta.
And then you've got the, kind of like a Tang then to the red wine, bounce
out each other so that the pasta is not too sweet and the wine is not too sour.
And really 20 minutes later.
I want it to like the dogs one, but because I like later.
I really prefer this one.
And this one, I think particularly like this rose', this rose
drink, this is my favorite.
Okay.
I'm getting a little heady.
There's a lot of wine drinking.
I'm not used to drinking.
It is very interesting to try all these different wines tastes like the
range of body that each wine has and to understand what foods it can go with.
But I think I've been having a little bit too much wine.
I can get my full under the Tuscan.
Experience, but I was in Tuscany under this sun.
And what more could you ask.
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