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Traveller’s Prayer

Heavenly Father look down on us your humble, obedient tourists, who are doomed to travel this earth taking photographs, mailing postcards, buying souvenirs, and walking around in drip-free underwear.

We beseech you Lord to see that our planes are not delayed, our luggage is not lost & overweight baggage goes unnoticed.

Give us this day your divine guidance in our selection of bed ‘n’ breakfast.

We pray that the toilets work and the telephone operators speak our tongue, that there are no emails from our children which would cause us to cancel the rest of our trip.

Lead us to good inexpensive restaurants where the wine is included in the price of the meal and local taxes are not added on later.

Give us the wisdom to tip correctly in currencies we do not understand. Make the natives appreciate us for the loving people we are, and not for what they can extract from our purses.

Grant us the strength to visit museums, the cathedrals, the palaces, and if we skip an important monument to take a nap after lunch, please have mercy on us as our flesh is weak.

Dear God please protect our wives from “bargains” they don’t need, can’t afford, and can’t fit into their suitcases anyway. Lead them not into temptation, for they know not what they do.

Almighty Father, keep our husbands from looking at foreign women and comparing them to the vintage domestic model. Save them from making complete fools of themselves in nightclubs. Above all, do NOT forgive them their trepasses for they know exactly what they do. And worse, enjoy it.

When our journey is over. grant us the persistence to find someone who will watch our home movies and listen to our stories, so our lives as tourists will not have been in vain.

This we ask you in the name of Conrad Hilton,Thomas Cook American Express, Visa, & Mastercard.

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Tuscany Vacation Rentals

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Tre bicchieri al Cortevecchia 2005

Il Chianti Classico Riserva Cortevecchia 2005 di Fattoria Le Corti del Principe Corsini ha ricevuto, al Salone del Gusto di Torino, il riconoscimento dei Tre bicchieri della Guida Vini d’Italia 2009 firmata da Gambero Rosso e Slow Food.
“Sono onorato e felice che, ancora una volta, Fattoria Le Corti riceva i Tre bicchieri – afferma Duccio Corsini – è un riconoscimento che premia il lavoro fatto in questi anni mirato a far emergere le Corti nel territorio del Chianti Classico. Vorrei sottolineare che mi pare una scelta prudente quella di premiare una Riserva di Chianti Classico – che più classico di così non si può! Don Tommaso è per me la migliore espressione di territorio della Fattoria Le Corti”.

more at: Principe Corsini

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A week in Florence , very elegant appartment

Our stay in Florence has been memorable, thanks to the luxurious apartment we stayed in.
Bonnie Prince Charles Suites is very well equipped, comfortable and spacious. The garden is monumental and informal at the same time. We enjoyed very much having dinners on the terrace. The staff is very friendly and discreet, very well trained. Fantastic privacy.
Thanks for such a fantastic hospitality
J&J

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Giannella, super, nous reviendrons c’est sur.

Un parc magnifique !!! Un coin barbecue, un immense jardin.
Aimabilité propriétaire:        ****
Très sympa, nous nous sommes aussi rendu au château qui produit un
magnifique “super Toscan” Castellare di Marsiliana.
Excellent rapport qualité prix de ce vin, vendu EUR 20.– sur place

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