This is for "Casa Terra" - First of all: The owners are SUPER nice! We didn't meet them in person unfortunately, only had email contact. But they sent their mother/mother-in-law to welcome us, and she was also SUPER friendly! She spoke only very little English, but also a little French, and together with our little Italiano we got along well.
When we arrived, we were amazed by how wonderful everything looked! The pictures don't do the apartment justice, it looks much better in real life.
Everything was spotlessly clean, and we found a bottle of wine as a welcome in the kitchen.
The view from the windows is gorgeous. It's nice to sit out on the little balcony that is accessible from two of the bedrooms.
The rooms are spacious and have a lot of storage space for clothing, all very nice chests of drawers & closets.
The decoration of the whole apartment shows how much love and thought the owners invested in it.
There is lots of space to hang out & relax, in the apartment as well as in the very spacious and romantic garden.
We had a large spider in our bedroom, but it lived peacefully and quiet in the corner next to the chest of drawers, waiting for flies in her elaborate web, so we shared the space with her. :-)
There are so many places to explore and enjoy, we wouldn't know where to begin to list them up. We would highly recommend to explore some of the wonderful hills & little villages such as Benabbio (great restaurant in the square, very Italian experience!), San Quirico, Vellano, Pontito... to name only a few.
Lucca was beautiful, as was Pescia, we also drove down to Volterra & San Gimignano which was a wonderful road trip with fantastic views over Tuscany.
But we were always happy in the evening to return to our wonderful Tuscan home, where we cooked Italian style on the big gas stove & also used the oven.
The interior of the kitchen is beyond words. Antique lovers - you will be stunned! :-)
What else can we say? Our dog was very happy and felt welcome, also in the little village by the way. Very friendly people, many of them own dogs and greeted us very friendly.
Our children (16, 14, 8) felt very much at home, they loved the apartment from the first moment, after each of them got to pick one of the wonderful bedrooms as their own.
Lisa and Luca, thank you very much for a wonderful holiday that will always remain in our memory!
We can only recommend this holiday home to the highest. It was one of our best vacations ever.