On Monday we went for a drive to Montepulciano, which we thought was the home of the famous Brunello wines, but alas we were mistaken. While the town was lovely it was not the place we were looking for. We found out after doing some reading that the town we really wanted was Monticiano. This is also another lovely little town but the home of the famous Brunello wines.
We arrived with the sun shining and found the fortress and did a wine tasting, this is where the touristy party kicked in and we paid 24 euro for our wine tasting. We tried 4 wines and only a tasting. They werent bad but we are drinking wines at the moment for 13 euro's a bottle that taste better.
So we left our tourist trap and strolled around the town. We stopped into afew of the enoteca's and looking around I am not sure how they are making any money. They are all selling / tasting most of the same wines but the tasting is cheaper than what we paid.
We stopped in at one and found out the lady serving us was from England and ended up having a conversation about the economy and how it is going. For those of you that dont know, italy and probably alot of Europe is f..k..d. Within the next year there will be no money no nothing. There are shops closing down every day and then people lose their jobs. There are factories that have been going for 20 - 30 years that are shutting down and then all the people that they have hired are out of work. Apparently there is a high suicide rate at the moment with all the stress of all of this. Now this is the opinion of one person but well when you watch the news, read the papers they are sort of saying the same thing. It is like a rolling stone, where will it stop.
It was in interesting discussion but we didnt end up buying anything and headed off for more looking etc. We did buy 3 wines to have over the next few days. We headed off home for lunch as we had spent a bit already. On the way home I thought we werent going to make it. Brett was driving thank god as this crazy lady was going way to fast and on the wrong side of the road. It was one of the moments where if we had left a few minutes earlier or Brett had been going faster I would not be writing this I reckon someone would be coming over to get the bodies. Brett put the brakes on and at the last minute she went back to her side, it scared the b..jesus out of us. Crazy lady and I thought we would be the ones to have the problem with the wrong side of the road. With our close call behind us we got home and had a lovely lunch, just in time to watch the jets come past the house really low and really fast. We must be in the fly zone as this is the second day we have seen it. It comes past about 3pm. This is the second day. Man was it load, but it was sort of fun. We imagined that it was Mick flying by to say hi, bit annoyed he didn't stop in to say hi.
We had one of our Italian neighbours out and about today and well I was such an idiot, I couldnt remember how to speak and I am sure he thought i was stupid english girl. Oh well I rushed inside so I wouldn't have to talk to anyone. Oh well so much for my month of italian lessons. Back to square one.
Hope all is well in Brissy and miss you all.
Love Monique, Brett, Marty, Kiwi and Hooter
Location:Somewhere in Tuscany
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