Tuscan Hideaway
Review Submitted: December 7, 2008
Date of Stay: July 2008
Just the two of us, we searched long and hard and we were rewarded with this beautiful house. We are very used to Tuscan hill village properties so therefore the drive up to the house was neither a surprise or a problem, it was just enough tomake you want that zap of expresso when you finally get to the house! Jeanette even managed to drive both up to the house and back down, on only the second time of driving in Italy!
Thank you Mark & Molly for the beautiful oil, we drizzled it over everything! Great coffee machine, great tuscan stone sink, lounge furniture a little less than comfortable, particularly as we like to sit and read. Mark was very helpful and showed us routes to explore. The charges for electricity and gas were very fair, something we are often caught out with in other places we have stayed.
The house is beautiful, well restored, well equiped and in an idyllic location. Sitting outside watching the sunset over the Lucca plain was fantastic. The eagles soaring over the woods at eye level were a treat! Sitting in the garden you felt very secluded and it is not overlooked at all. But left to admire the tremendous views and dream away a relaxing few hours.
We only used the master bedroom and it was honestly the most comfortable bed we have ever slept in! Beautiful american linen which was superb and cool after a hot day.
A vareity of good food supermarkets or small village shops are a great source of food, all tasting as it should with real flavours.
The screech of the volpe (fox's) at night were great to hear. Once we had worked out what the noise was (with Mark's help)!!
All in all a great return to Tuscany after 3 years away and we will almost certainly be back. To be as remote as you feel but within 20mins of the dreamy streets and alleys of Lucca and be able to walk it's magestic walls at sunrise or sunset was sheer bliss.
The immediate valley itself had some lovely villages to explore, you are not too far from coast, mountains, central Tuscany, the marble quarries of Massa and beyond. An ideal base to discover the North of Tuscany, but close enough to day trip to both Pisa or Florence. Barga to the North of Lucca is another delight within easy reach.
All is all we couldn't fault it, comfortable reading armchairs in the lounge would have made it easily 15/10 score for us!!!
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