Tuscany

Not long after first meeting Thipp I was made aware of two things on her bucket list - to have a baby and to visit Tuscany.  Not surprisingly, I've recently learned that her bucket is not finite in nature.  Still, it's nice to now have at least a couple of the  items crossed-off the list.

We started our Tuscan visit with four days in Florence.  If September is the tourist shoulder season I would hate to see how busy this place is in the summer.  In order to visit the Uffizi museum Thipp had to stand in line to buy a ticket for the next day.  Every site of interest had big lines, causing us to re-evaluate how badly we wanted to see something.  Recognizing that two months of travel was taking its toll on us we vowed to minimize the amount of time that we would spend in big cities over the remainder of our trip.

The smaller towns and countryside of Tuscany have provided us with just what we've needed.  We have rented a car and a farmhouse (I still can't believe we found it) for a week and have spent time either visiting neighbouring towns or simply enjoying staying on the farm (Alex has been feeding carrots to the rabbits and pigs daily9).  It is amazing to be driving in these rural areas and then to come across these well preserved medieval towns perched on a hill-top.

We will be leaving Tuscany this coming Saturday.  For quite some time we were unsure as to where to go to next.  We know that we have travel fatigue and we sense that Alex has been a bit unsettled by our ongoing movement and would probably prefer to stay I one place, especially if it meant that he would finally get a trampoline.  So with no obvious top choice we've decided to head south for the Amalfi coast.  It will be nice to see the ocean and I'm sure will inspire new additions to Thipp's bucket list.