Spending a week in a Tuscan villa is one of those dreamy concepts that you hope to transform into a reality one day. Fortunately, I was able to do just that when I convinced my family to spend a couple of weeks in Italy to celebrate my parents’ 50th anniversary. We spent our first week at a villa in Piedmont, and now we were about to enjoy our second week in one of Italy’s most romantic regions, at Villa Carpineto in the Tuscan town of Castellina in Chianti. Read about it >
My motivations were, admittedly, selfish: I had been wanting to rent a vacation villa in Italy for years, but, for reasons beyond my comprehension, no one I knew shared that interest. So, when my parents’ 50th anniversary rolled around, I cloaked my desire in a proposal to celebrate their life milestone with them and some other family members in Italy for a couple of weeks. There was rapid buy-in, and I was soon planning a two-week journey for seven people, which began with a week at Villa Cascina Martinenga in the small town of Cereseto in Piedmont. Read about it >
Stephen Travels 