3rd stop...Cortona

After Florence, we took an hour drive to Cortona- which was my FAVORITE! It was absolutely beautiful.

Have you ever seen the movie, Under the Tuscan Sun? It was written by Frances Mayes, who owns a home in Cortona and the movie was based there. While on a walk, we were stopped in front the author's home and she peaked her head out of her window. She was so polite and let us open her gate to go into her garden!

Our hotel was nice and had a wonderful view from our balcony in our room. The only problem we had was the shower and the power. Our corner tub/shower was so tiny you couldn't move your feet or you would fall over and the shower curtain wasn't big enough. So by the time we were finished with our shower, the entire bathroom was soaking wet- even the toilet paper.

And something was wrong with our power- every time I turned on my hairdryer or straightener the power went out! It must be a common problem b/c we had our own circuit breaker thing in the room so we could reset it. I eventually just went to my parents room to finish getting ready. We really hated to complain though b/c everything was so beautiful.


Our guide had a friend, Ivan, who dug his gallery out of the ground. He was so interesting!

We went to a winery and saw the process of making wine.

We had a wine tasting and lunch. Bryan became quite the wine expert!