Fabulous vacations have always to be digested in little steps. The same goes with this wonderful holidays in Tuscany which were way too short (1 week) and ended last Sunday. Thanks again to Leslie, John, Lu and Vinnie, you are great travel companions and I had a marvelous time with you! We will highlight in (hopefully) several additional blog posts what we think are the best and most memorable experiences of our journey through Italy.
As of now I encourage you to go on a photo tour through my snapshots from our mediterranean adventures. In order to enjoy them better, I published them in four separate folders:
- Our beautiful vacation home near Cortona, Villa d’Angeli.
- The pittoresque village of Cortona.
- Our visit at the stunning Tarot Garden of the Swiss/French Sculpturist Nikki de Saint Phalle.
- Impressions of all other excursions to villages, wineries and other places in beautiful Tuscany.
Seeing all the beauty of the Tuscan countryside and its historic villages again, I suddenly remembered the (shortest) poem by Italian author Giuseppe Ungaretti which my friend Steve and I used to cite in order to describe our impressions of our summer vacation at my aunt’s house in the Tuscan region Maremma:
“M’illumino d’immenso.”
Translation: “I flood myself with light of the immense.” Although I am not entirely sure if that’s the best translation – it still summarizes for me the beauty of Tuscany.
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