Tuscany

It was so much fun to have my mom with me for the week in Tuscany! We had such a great time. We stayed at a 1,700 acre working farmhouse, the food was amazing. The countryside was beautiful but I was a little disappointed that they had just tilled all of the fields, so we weren't able to see as many rolling green Tuscan hillsides. It was still amazing though, I think my mom caught the travel bug on this trip...who could blame her :)


Me in Florence


San Gimignano from afar


Me and my mom




a little church I can't remember the name of


Tuscan sunrise


Cathedral in Siena


tower on the Piazza del Campo in Siena (we climbed to the top!)


starting the climb up the tower


the stairway


view from the top!


Cyprus trees at dawn at the farmhouse


tree on a hill at the farmhouse


me and my mom

Can't believe it's over already

So, my boss does photography workshops in Italy every year and I was lucky enough to get to go and help out with it this year. We were there for two weeks, one week on the Italian Riviera two days in Florence and a second week in Tuscany. Loren spent the first week with me and my mom came over for the second week. We had a blast getting to know new people and visiting different cities every day. We would do short photography classes in the morning and then spend the rest of the day traveling to surrounding areas seeing little villages, monasteries, beaches. Here are some pictures from the first week. I'll post more from the second week later to split it up.


view from our hotel in Camogli


eating gelato


at the port in Camogli waiting for a boat


the beach at San Fruttuoso Monastary


swimming in the mediterranean on the Cinque Terre


one of the towns on the Cinque Terre


umbrellas on the beach


more umbrellas, love them


another view of the Cinque Terre


pretty clouds and ocean


Vernazza at night


pier at Portofino


Portofino boat


at the lighthouse in Portofino

more pictures to come from Tuscany, Ciao!