holiday to tucany { personal }

Ahhh, it’s been a very long time for me to actually sit down and upload these, but in April we had a great couple of weeks away in Tuscany (hurrah!).

It was so great to get away for a little bit, and we first dropped in on our fave place in the world - Barga near Lucca. We stayed at the same place as last year - with Ron and Susi Gauld at Casa Fontana. They always get 5 star ratings on Trip Advisor and there’s a good reason why - their attention to detail, their caring attitude and the amazing location are all spectacular. We love it there (especially the ice cream shop around the corner from theirs)!

We had some really fun times - from a giant grasshopper which leapt onto the table to make friends with Lee on our first day, to revisiting the most amazing ice cream parlour in the world (had to return for the trifle flavour!). We also drove up really high into the mountains and got a bit of a fright when we emerged out of a long tunnel into the middle of a storm cloud - not under it, but right in the centre of it! Rather frightening to have thunder clap and lightening streak right past the windscreen while being bombarded with chunks of icy hailstone!

After a week exploring in Barga we headed southwards past Siena to a little known place called Buoncovento, where we stayed on a gorgeous hilltop farm run by Stefania with dogs, horses, goats and chickens! It was a bit too chilly to use the lovely infinity pool overlooking the Tuscan countryside, but perhaps we’ll have the chance to return later next year when the temperature has warmed up a bit!

Here are some of my fave pics from our trip!