Tuscany is Very Hot.<\/p>\n
The food is very good (though, being a vegetarian, the meat minefield has to be negotiated very carefully).<\/p>\n
The locals seem very nice and smile sweetly at my attempts to speak Italian, especially when I’m grappling for a phrase or a meaning and slip in to Spanish. That’s the big trap for me.<\/p>\n
I *know* Italian – I studied Latin in school and conversational Italian in later years, but my second default foreign language (after English, obv) is Spanish.<\/p>\n
The frustration I feel at not being fluent (or as fluent as I really should be) is almost immeasurable.<\/p>\n
Anyway, I’ve just popped in because we’re in a certain town made famous in a certain series of books about a certain type of mythical creature which allegedly thrives on blood and doesn’t do too well during the daylight hours.<\/p>\n
Though this latter detail seems to have been taken and stretched wafer-thin, to the point of not actually existing any longer, by certain modern authors.<\/p>\n
As you can tell, I’m avoiding all google-traps very carefully because one or other or even both of us might want to write about this charming little town, high on a hill in Tuscany.<\/p>\n
Yes, it’s a hill. I’ve lived in Spain’s Sierra Nevada mountains baby. I know a mountain when I see one. And this… is a hill.<\/p>\n
In other news…<\/p>\n
The Prospective New Horse has passed his veterinary examination. Now I’m starting to get excited!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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