Buying our dream home in Italy. Episode 2

Episode 2.0: Journey with us as we look for and buy a house in Italy. Share in our adventures, miss steps and successes. Today we visit Greve in Chianti, Montefioralle, Panzano and Volpaia. We selected these small medieval villages and hamlets, after visiting the larger, touristic towns of San Gimignano and Volterra in Episode 1. Marlee season is a wonderful second life we are sharing. There are many things that make this season so special. Let’s get started!

Welcome to the second episode of Mary season we continue the hunt for our Dream Home in Italy let’s shift gears and visit four far smaller places these are known as Villages or hamlets or Borgo in Italian gra inan Monte Fior a Hilltop Borgo panzano a Charming kanteti town and vaya a fortified Village

Gravy in keante is home to 13,825 people the main piota shows just how rich gravy is in terms of restaurants and great Services beautiful Maria’s our driver as we whiz through the gorgeous Countryside and arrive in the streets of gravy little did we know that it would be Mark

Day and that the square would be packed with locals A very small apartment in the area starts at 165,000 prices rocket from that point we turn to the stores and there is a beautiful flower shop we quickly find marelia F this iconic butcher shop also sells meals that you can eat at the tables out front

So today we decided to spend a quiet Sunday and went down to gra and we’re in a Butchery that is nothing short of spectacular you have all these different salamis and legs that are aging and honey when that moment comes and you need to spread my ashes right over here right over here

Baby oh kill me now this is clearly another aging room just spectacular arched ceilings the prti LIE under ashes for almost 2 years and 4 months these were salted in 2021 and be ready in February 2024 we head back to the retail store order lunch head outside grab a table

And wait for our food lunch at Cafe leant at theer make your mind I don’t know it’s going to be one I think it’s Pia Baby G Pia yes Pia Pia Pia it’s a p place after lunch we go straight up about a mile and a half to Monty Fior Al

It is often claimed to be the birthplace of a Mero vuchi Monte fiale has 78 inhabitants two restaurants and a bustling bar we make our way to urino beautiful little restaurant within the Hamlet down the stairs and we are greeted by stunning View and there’s this unbelievable Little

Village right on top of own Mountain there’s a single truck going around it so you have a warping 3 minute stop at traffic and we couldn’t find parking drove around the back got something there kind of wondered whether we should come up or not and so far this is the

Most stunning SP we’ve had in Italy um the point toss us to whether we have a glass of Kean here and keep exploring would just spend the next 2 3 hours here in this Exquisite restaurant come With the menu should give you an idea of what a great selection is available and just how affordable these restaurants can be we spend another hour walking around this beautiful stone Hamlet taking in just how clean it is we have fallen in love and added to the list of

Places we want to live in Italy walking on these streets gives us a real taste of our future and where we want to be down we go back through gravy and off to panan this queen town has a population of about 1,161 people and quite a few services including

Restaurants we walk back up the hill and go and visit the beautiful beautiful Stone Church at the top next to en teobaldi to have something to eat and drink Ina quickly becomes one of our favorite places here is a glimpse of their menu and again you get a real

Flavor for just how affordable the food in Italy and KY can be there may not be anything better than having a glass of keti in keti with Maria in aabal The in panzano quickly disappear in the rear view mirror we’re off to valaya the beautiful walled Village one of the

First things you notice is there are not a lot of services in this Hamlet so we made it up to Vaya a little different from the last town where we were in which was incredibly dense with people um this is this has got a Hamlet feel where the

Other felt like a village a village on top of the mountain again it is just breatht Tuscany views in keti you can hear people in the background there was at least three or four restaurants open behind us but just beautiful buildings that have stood the test of time this is

Just tuskin is taking my breath away absolutely taking my breath away and just to be up here in the mountains braa Maria the driving is something else if you uh want to get your Formula One on if you feel you’re ready for uh to become a rally driver highly recommend

You come and drive up in these mountains and then decide if that is the career move you want to make it’s just been another stunning day in Tuscan in Italy and we just can’t wait to see what tomorrow brings for us sunsets in Tuscany are absolutely exhilarating we head off to explore

Further it’s a very beautiful Courtyard with wine testing you can buy wine there as well and there is a little I don’t know half of the street honey what do will you say we got walk you just yes watch your head that is interesting I’m curious where are we going to end

It’s another beautiful Street of the little town so in this beautiful location there is apartments for sale this loata Circa 85 sare M Salon cuchina three camaras and my favorite one buo for the whole house but I do like the CER idea we’re still in vpay up to the top

Of the Town we’ve walked all the way through and again just those wonderful sounds emanating from the beautiful Village here that we’re walking around in couple of me people moving around we’ve seen different flags different People another stunning home captured in a moment in time we go to baruchi to finish the day the menu serves as a constant reminder of how affordable things are the bar is beautiful we’re head outside for a glass of wine and to recap the day’s events we start to PL the trp

Home do you want to go back short way long way walking 15 minutes or 8 minutes so it’s 15 minutes back on the tar Road and how many is it a dirt road is it a 8 km dir road so it will be about like 20 minutes but it’s adventure honey

Adventure I’m up for an adventure that’s not what I’m to get the challenge I’m sitting with is here in Italy if we were to get stuck up there I think it’ll take a day or two for people to come get they friend people people are amazing I love

Them I just I don’t want to taste the let’s spend the night in the middle of spend the night in the car yes I think I was a younger better man I think I would go better but I’m not okay very proud to be a grumpy old man very proud of It