We woke up and met at 8:00 am to start our winery tour in Tuscany. 8:00 seems a little early to start drinking wine but we wanted to get the most out of our day.
The wine tour had about 20 people on it. It was a good mix of couples and friend groups. People from a few different countries but Americans made up over half of us
Once we were at the first winery I realized I had actually been on this exact same tour before. Even though I’ve done it before, this would be a whole new experience. It had been three years and I didn’t remember the wine at all.
The pours were so big we could really only do two wineries (usually at home it’s normal to do about 3 or 4 wineries in one day). Everyone was singing and socializing on the bus ride back. When we got back to Florence, everyone was trying to figure out what the Irish girls were going to do after since they were the life of the party. They were like, “We were just going to see what the Americans wanted to do next!” So we exchanged contact info, decided to do a power nap and meet up later. We never did meet up again though.
Kyli, Alisha and I went back to the hotel room and quickly changed into fresh clothes. We walked and shopped in Florence and then ran into Alisha’s mom and her friend (they didn’t do the wine tour with us). We helped them find the Arno river and then after the sun set we went back to the hotel room.
Alisha and Kyli’s room had a private terrace. We were so tired we just opened another bottle of grocery store wine, salami and cheese and ate it outside why Kyli packed her huge (huge!) luggage. Kyli had to leave on a train to Rome by 10:00 pm because she had an early flight home the next day. By about 9:00 she started getting hungry for a real meal. We walked to a restaurant nearby and Kyli ordered two entrees. Then she realized she didn’t have enough time to eat it all 🤔 she took it to go and we said goodbye to Kyli.
Alisha and I were so tired. After Kyli left we just slowly ate our meal. After a few minutes the other customers started leaving and the owner opened up a bottle of wine for us even though we definitely should have been tired of wine by now. The owner mentioned that he wants to visit California. We bonded because we were able to tell him of wine regions in California other than Napa. He seemed really interested. He took note about Los Olivos and Paso Robles.
He pulled up a chair at our table and poured himself a glass of wine and smoked a cigarette (we were done eating by now) and just chatted with us for a while! He’s a painter so he showed us some of his work. He’s been doing more painting during COVID since the restaurant has been slow.
By the time we finished that bottle of wine Alisha and I were starting to get a second wind of energy. The owner let us pick the music in the restaurant and Alisha chose Usher.
We were having fun but it was time to call it a night. Alisha had to be up early because they were doing free COVID testing at the park near our hotel and she wanted to be in line by 7:00 am. I had to be on my way to the airport for yet another early morning flight.
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