A day in Tuscany hills

Our last full day near San Gimignano so we explored the hillsides and visited Monteriggioni

Last night there was a deep pink sunset and here are a few snaps of it from our holiday home looking towards San Gimignano. So rich and vibrant. 

Monteriggioni is only a half hour journey for our home. It is a walled hillside medieval town with an intact continuous wall enclosing the town. 

It is on a cycling route and so was full of cyclists and other tourists. We managed to park at the top of the hill so we didn’t have to walk up the hill as people were doing.

Some of the scenery again of this part of Tuscany. 

We have seen lizards egrets and heard owls and a cuckoo each night. Lots of jays and magpies and a few birds of prey. 

Fields of barley and oats covered in poppies. The lines of vines sometimes have rose bushes at the ends of their row. 

The smells of roses and jasmine all these things are what I’ll remember…