Ciao Italia!: Best of Tuscany Tour

Since we were in Florence for the weekend we decided to do different day trips. On Friday we did the best of Tuscany tour which Ashley did when she was here this past summer. We got on the bus and felt like losers immediately because everyone was a tourist. We knew that coming into it, but we liked that the tour hit 3 different Tuscan cities so we went anyways.

We started out at Siena which we collectively thought was overrated after hearing such great things about it. It was really pretty, but just not a lot to it.

We then went to a lunch at a Chianti vineyard where we got a tour of the wine making process and tasted the wines and olive oils. It was really cool, and we raided their discount gift shop after.

After lunch we were taken to San Gimignano which was my favorite part of the trip. It's a mid-evil city that is completely walled in. It sits high up on hills and has a really pretty view of all of Tuscany. We had some free time there and just walked around and shopped.

After San Gimignano we headed to Pisa. We had still yet to see the leaning tower even though we are so close to it. We got to Pisa and knew what to expect, that all there really is there is the tower. So we took pictures for about an hour of trying to hold the tower up.

It was cool to really see a majority of the Toscana region of Italy in one day.