Day 17-
Today we head out for something completely different! We said a fond farewell to Florence and headed to the train station again. Our friend Anne Sharp's son Cesare works at a Camping Village in a very small town on the coast of Tuscany. Talamone, just north of Orbetello, has a pretty coast line with crystalline waters and this crazy resort where average Italians go to get away from the city. I can pretty much guarantee there aren't many Americans here....ever! Believe it or not, they do occasionally get surf here- even had some last week according to Cesare.
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| Talamone, on the coast of Tuscany |
To get here we took the train to Siena, where unfortunately we didn't have enough time to climb the hill into town before we had to board a second train to Talamone. On our way down to the coast we passed by fields of grapes, sunflowers, and ripe grains ready for harvest. We also saw beautiful and remote villas and tiny towns perched on hillsides. Just north of Talamone is a large nature preserve with some very uncrowded shoreline accessible only by boat. Tomorrow we'll head over and try to get into the water! Wish us luck!
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| One of many little hillside villas on the way down to Talamone. This will probably end up in one of my backgrounds for an Italianate mural someday. |
Right now we are listening to the most goofy Italian DJ music coming up from the pool area. I don't even really know how to describe it. Definitely not techno, more like an old radio show with sound effects, lots of talking, and bad semi-disco sounding music. Marianne just asked "two more hours of this?" Wish us luck with surviving this DJ too!! Really obnoxious! I think the Karaoke may even be an improvement.
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| Pool area of the Camping Village Talamone. They still get away with insisting everyone wear a swimcap in the pool. Can you imagine trying that in USA? |
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