Sunday 26 August 2012

La Dolce Vita

Every year we decamp to the Tuscan town of Figline Valdarno, birthplace of my late and much missed father-in-law.
We eat, we visit relatives, we argue, we drink, we swim, we cycle in the intense heat, we read and we go to Florence.
I love my in-laws and I love that my daughter can feel a sense of heritage and belonging when she returns.
The light is different in Tuscany, I'm rather short sighted in the UK, I need glasses for driving, but when I step off the plane in Pisa, the colours are sharper..nothing is blurred at all.

4 comments:

  1. Tuscany is one of those places I wish I had gone to when I could travel. Now I armchair travel with picture books, which is cheaper, but loses some of the atmosphere!
    Thanks for the comment on my blog.

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    1. You are very welcome, thanks for reading mine!

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  2. ooh how glorious...and what a beauty your daughter is....I always think the tower of Pisa looks a bit like something out of Alice in Wonderland!!

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    1. That is very kind ofyou, thanks! Yes, I do love Tuscany, feel very lucky to have married into an Italian family.

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