Rural Remote Italia

Driving south from La Spezia without the gps was successful! We appear to have mastered the toll roads, roundabouts, and reading place names...not perfectly mind...but without too much hassel! We are in homestead which has about 6 villas for tourists, ours is quite basic, and dark and dank, so we spend most of our time outside facing a sparkling deep pool then on to trees and rural scenery. The villa is plaster, terracotta tiles and whitewashed walls with terracotta brick flooring throughout with dark heavy wood beams, doors and windowshutters...we bought up large at the supermarket and we held up the queue because the checkout operator insisted she find us a price for a shopping bag....she took ages and the queue were getting aggitated...we kept telling her not to worry about it, but boy we soon learned...do not buy anything without a bar code, seriously, we were in the supermarket for over 2.5 hours....don't laugh it is true...but the vino was great...! Weather is really warm, around 28oC no rain but is expected tomorrow. We appear to be the only tourists in the town, I am not afraid of speaking da lingo, we have met a lovely Irish couple who appear to enjoy the vino with us. Ahhhh we are such the soaks! We are heading to a big town called San Gimignano tomorrow we are told to get there early to avoid the tourists!! All is well with us, we have got lots of photos which we will download when we return to Uk. We are here until next Saturday and then head south. Love receiving the comments, keep it up, we appreciate very much. Buonasera it is bierra time!!!