Certaldo

My home town in Tuscany

I am a real city girl or so I thought. After 20 years of living in downtown Florence, the noise and air pollution got to me and we moved out to the countryside.

We actually bought a tiny 1/3 of a country house to restore. Did I tell you I am NOT FRANCES MAYES? The restoration nightmare stories can wait for later, but what is nice, is that the tiny villag…