Ok, I didn’t really like Tuscany Tourism’s promotional advertisements when they first came out (see I So Don’t Want to Live Like This), and I still loathe their dreamy romanticism. But there is hope at the end of that dreary rainbow. The Around Tuscany blog network is doing some fine work.
I liked the recent post on Vespa Tours. It gives you a road map to experiential travel bliss—besides the suggested route map I mean.
Sure, if it’s your first trip to Tuscany you’ll want to stand in line with the tourists in Florence and do all that Medici gawking you came to do—but some of us who’ve poked around Italy for a while really appreciate the culture we find; we’d like to take one of those iconic scooters and zip fancy-free through Tuscany, in part because all those button down-people devoting their lives and vitriol to keeping their neighbors from getting proper health care think it’s a nutty thing to—do but secretly they’d give a left ventricle to be there right along side of you on one of those little two wheeled time bombs, senza dubbio.
I so wanna do this.
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