Podere Monti
After the stress and chaos of waiting for everyone to arrive, renting 2 huge diesel vans, ramming everyone’s luggage into said vans and driving for 3 hours, we finally arrived at our temporary home, a villa in the small town of Montepulciano. Podere Monti is a 7-room bed & breakfast and we managed to take all the rooms and have the whole place to ourselves. This allowed us access to the kitchen which became very important as we had Jimi, our top chef. After settling in our own rooms, we explored the local area. Thinking we were back home, we set out to find something to eat at 5PM. No restaurant in Italy is open at 5PM! Later that night we had dinner at Tre Stelle our local favorite. This was also the start of the Italian meal protocol. This begins with multiple bottles of wine, antipasta, followed by a 1st course and a 2nd course. It doesn’t stop there. You have to have dessert, espresso and final drink of lemoncello.
There are a lot of smokers in Italy and that was hard to get used to.
Welcome back! How was it?
Can’t wait to see all the pictures and hear about the rest of the trip! This is a great day 1 !
wow, nice digs!
Oh – the B&B is bee-yoo-tee-ful!!
You travel with some beautiful women, Knucklehead. Love that haircut! Looks strangely familiar.