It had been raining for as long as I could remember and then they forecasted snow and along it came. This got me wondering how long I had to wait for some guaranteed sunshine. I checked my calendar and my Greek holiday in June is nearly 20 weeks away. I decided to look at my photo albums when out fell a rough review I had written and forgotten about in 2006. The review was of a day in San Gimignano during a holiday in Tuscany. I read it to cheer myself up and here it is. I visited all the major cities during my Tuscan holiday, Florence, Siena, Pisa and Luca. However one of the days I enjoyed most was my visit to San Gimignano (San Gim), Tuscany's historic hill ...  Read the complete review

~ ~ As any off you who have read my recent opinions are aware, the ‘mad cabbie’ and family spent this year’s summer holiday in the land of my birth, Scotland. Don’t get me wrong, I adore Scotland, but for a summer break our first choice would still have to be Italy, and more specifically, the Tuscany region, which we visited in both 1999 and 2000. And one of our favourite small towns in this region is the one I’m going to review here, San Gimignano. ~ ~ San Gimignano is a small medieval hill town surrounded by high stone walls not too far from the major Tuscan city of Siena. In Italy, they call it ‘San Gimignano ...  Read the complete review

San Gimignano is Italy's best preserved Medieval City - full of towers dating from before the 13th century. It really is like stepping into a time machine! Outside the ancient city walls it is pandemonium, with cars and people every where but once you leave your car in one of the many cheap and nearby carparks and walk through the ancient gates, you step back in time. The city is amazing - made up of little narrow winding streets surrounded by ancient medieval buildings. It is full of tourists but you can't blame them as it is such a lovely place. It's also a shopper's paradise with every third shop selling leather goods and the ...  Read the complete review