Sometimes the best travel days are the ones when you don’t really do very much at all. Our Villa Barberino stay in Tuscany gave us exactly what we needed before officially becoming home owners in Italy.  We had arrived tired, a little travel-weary and very […]

There are some places that seem to invite you to slow down the moment you arrive. Villa Barberino in Tuscany was one of those places for us. We arrived in Tuscany after a long day of travel. Things hadn’t gone exactly according to plan—a missed […]

There are some days you anticipate for so long that when they finally arrive, they almost don’t feel real. This was one of those days. For months, buying a home in Tuscany had been a dream, a plan, and a possibility. We had searched listings, studied […]