Linsey, Lilly and Lauren on an old Roman wall

Tuscany daily schedule
Wake up whenever you want—since the shutters are heavy and the A/C is cold, our first morning didn’t start until 11:30am

Lilly makes a new friend at the villa

Get dressed in bathing suit and slather on sunscreen
Pick up a pool raft and fill a cup with ice—since we brought our own ice cube trays, we had bowls of cubes ready to cool us down all week long

Lilly relaxes in the pool

Make the long 50 meter trek to the pool, ensuring you brought essential entertainment material, iPod, book, wine
Loll on the pool raft for as long as you feel like it, dip into the pool, climb out of pool, warm yourself up by laying on the hot cement pool deck, drop back into the pool again

Change for dinner when the sun starts to dip below the distant hills

Distant Tuscan village

Find a casual restaurant in an old charming village and try something new for dinner
Order Chianti and indulge in the homemade pasta and sauce

Old glass bottle full of wine corks

A scoop of gelato to top off the evening

Mmmm, gelato

Drift off to sleep after reading a page or two of Under the Tuscan Sun

my summer reading during holiday, “Under the Tuscan Sun”