Tuscany

Sting, Francis Ford Coppola, And Frances Mayes Featured on PBS’ Dream Of Italy
By Everett Potter As Italy reopens to the world, armchair travelers can take a quick trip to the land of La Dolce Vita via the new Dream of Italy: Travel, Transform and Thrive special on PBS stations in June. Hosted by Kathy McCabe, the special showcases the transformative power and

A Talk with Frances Mayes: Italy Beyond Tuscany
By Everett Potter Writer and poet Frances Mayes lives the kind of life most of us can only dream about. Wandering through Italy, she and her husband, Ed, came upon a villa in the Tuscan town of Cortona. They bought and restored the villa, an effort she chronicled in her
Hotel Adler Thermae Part 2: A Home Base in Tuscany
by Geri Bain Nestled into the Tuscan hills, just a 40 minute drive from Siena and within walking and biking distance of many historic and picturesque towns, Hotel Adler Thermae Spa and Relax Resort, covered in a recent article makes a wonderful home base for enjoying Tuscany. The resort
Hotel Adler Thermae: A Tuscan Spa Resort
By Geri Bain Relaxing in the naturally-heated thermal lagoon-like pool at the Hotel Adler Thermae Spa & Relax Resort, I met couples and families from Italy, Germany, England and Switzerland as well as a handful of Americans. Many described the resort as their vacation home; a place they
The Interview: Kathy Bechtel of ItaliaOutdoors Food and Wine
By Ed Wetschler Most European bicycling trips range from sag-wagon easy to blisteringly hard, but a single ItaliaOutdoors Food and Wine trip often features both extremes, and the same goes for the company’s hiking and skiing vacations. Wondering how they manage that, we sat down (on proper chairs, not bicycle
Lucca: A Forgotten City in Tuscany
By Bobbie Leigh How can an exceptionally charming Italian town have an inferiority complex? It seems odd, but that’s definitely the case for Lucca, a former ancient Roman colony founded in 180 BC that’s about a half hour’s drive from Pisa. “We have such a low profile,” complains one Lucchese.
The Interview: Andy Levine, DuVine Adventures
Andy Levine says that he created DuVine Adventures at his kitchen table with a website and a glass of wine in 1996. Fifteen years later, Levine has built the Boston-based DuVine into one of the leading biking companies in the US, offering wine-infused cycling trips to Italy and France, the