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ankina goes to Tuscany
ankinagoes2tuscany.blogspot.com
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This is a blog about my dream and reality living in Tuscany for six months, sharing the experience with the love of my life. I will publish the photos I take, the experiences I make, the people I meet and places I see.. This started as a dream, but is now turning into reality..Life is in your hands, grab it and you will see the amazing journeys it can take you on.
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This is not good bye

I have dreaded this blog entry from the moment I set foot in Ponte a Serraglio, but here it is and I have to try and come up with a way of ending this amazing farytale. And I am not sure I can. Leavi...

10 aug 11

Bella Portofino

It is getting close to the end and my final blog will probably be later today or tomorrow. Thoughts are running through my head, and I am not ready to go home yet. But life has to return to some sort...

08 aug 11

you have very little control over a sunrise

About a month ago when we had a car, we got up bright an early around 4.30 am to catch the sunrise over the valley around Barga. I wrote about Barga in the very beginning when we were stuck for buses...

06 aug 11

Among hills and mountains

The beauty of this area never seizes to amaze me. Every time we have a car and we go for a spontaneous drive around without really having a set destination in mind, we end up going to the most pictur...

05 aug 11

Some proper manual labour never killed anybody!

The other day Justin and I went with some friends of ours to help them out at the vineyard they work at. Having romantic notions of how working at Tuscan vineyards would be (mostly derived from sappy...

29 jul 11

Time for Love

I havent been writing for a few days as it just feels a bit wrong writing about how amazing life is here when the wounds of the tragedy in Oslo have not even started to heal. In that aspect it is dif...

28 jul 11

A long way from home

Yesterday, before I read about that horrors that have occurred in my country I was going to write a blog about a day in our paradise with relaxing walks, coffee at our local bakery etc.etc., but toda...

23 jul 11

The many sides of Tuscany

Tuscany has surprised me in more ways than one. I always had a picture of sunflower fields, poppies and towns clinging to hills a gust away from falling apart. And indeed, many places are like that h...

22 jul 11

Invaluable moments

My super duper partner in crime, Tina, just left yesterday after she came to visit us for a few days to experience what I now have come to realize is the ”Ponte a Serraglio” effectJ From the moment s...

17 jul 11

Painting is my new favourite hobby:)

First of all I am sorry that there have not been a post in few days, my internet connection is not the greatest these days (something about the atmosphere/stratosphere I believe), so now I am in for ...

11 jul 11

I cant come home from Tuscany without pictures of sunflowers!

During the few days that we had a car, one of the main goals was to find a field of sunflowers and go bananas with my camera. Those flowers have always made me happy on a rainy Norwegian fall day and...

05 jul 11

Aqua naturale per favore

Thats what normally comes out of my mouth whenever we are at any kind of shop these days. It is hot, very very hot right now. And me who thinks it is pretty darn good when 25 degrees outside, is stru...

03 jul 11

The botanical garden in Lucca

The other day Justin and I were in Lucca killing some time and finally managed to find the botanical garden that I have been wanting to see for so long. And I were not dissapointed. Not that there we...

30 jun 11

Rome will take your breath away every time

The Colosseum        For some it might be the smothering heat that gives you respiration problems, but for most people I think it is just the city itself; its history; its marble;...

27 jun 11

Orrido di Botri (part I) with my family!

Entering Orrido di BotriI am sorry I have been slack on the blogging for the past week or so, my family came to visit during the weekend and then a little spur-of-the-moment trip to Rome postponed my...

24 jun 11

We say goodbye to Elba and look forward to more adventures to come

I wanted to stay a few more days in Elba. Just when we felt like we were getting to know the place a bit better we had to leave. It was mostly the last couple of days when we rented a scooter and got...

14 jun 11

spooky castle and hills that kills

The other day we rented a couple of bikes and thought that this was a good way to see more of the island, little did we think about the mountains and hills surrounding us on every angle. We climbed m...

11 jun 11

We live among palmtrees and flowers!

Elba is a beautiful island, yet a little quiet before tourist season kicks in, nevertheless, a perfect place to relax and enjoy the surroundings. We are staying at this really nice camp site called R...

09 jun 11

The reward of an early morning

Another day, another dawn. 4.30 am showed my watch when we got up this morning, ready to capture the mist of the valley from a little village on the top of a nearby mountain. So after trekking upward...

02 jun 11

Home sweet home, but not for long

Getting back to Bagni di Lucca was actually really nice and a bit of a relief. I enjoyed seeing more of Tuscany and taking landscape pictures, as the scenery further south is more open and mirrors wh...

01 jun 11

Under the Tuscan sunrise

The last two mornings (or I should say in the middle of the night) we have been getting up way before dawn to drive for hours so that we can catch the sunrise over the Tuscan hills. It was so hard ge...

27 may 11

Snaky business

Today was suppose to be a completely uneventful day, getting sunburned by the pool and relaxing from all the driving we have been doing in the last few days. And so it started, all the while up until...

25 may 11

through the hills of Siena

Another great day of our road trip has come to pass, and I am left with an overwhelming feeling of being the most fortunate person in the world. To be able to spend months in this amazingly extraordi...

23 may 11

Poking around in fields of flowers, visiting amazing Volterra and so much more!

This is how happy I was when I saw the flowery field:)Today has truly been an amazing day. It is our first day of our road trip south in Tuscany, and our drive from cozy Lucca took us down this amazi...

22 may 11

The hidden treats of Fornoli

Fornoli is one of the tree parts that make up the area we live in, and up until a few days ago I would say the least cosy of the tree. But a walk around some hidden streets around the village made bo...

18 may 11

the world from below

My intensions today was to take pictures of my favorite flower: roses, and make a blog about them..But alas, I was distracted, and this time by the view I had of everything over me..Justin got me thi...

14 may 11

The importance of friends and family

For the best part of over five years now I have been away from everyone I love back in Norway, making a lot of new and wonderful friends from all the corners of the world, but at the same time missin...

12 may 11

a quiet life

As we are celebrating workers day today I find it a little ironic that I am finally settled into my work free existence here in our little Tuscan village, and that I havent worked for two months and ...

01 may 11

Great time with great friends!

Round one with visits has unfortunately just left us, and it was really nice to be able to share some of this greatness with good friends. So thank you Luis, Caroline and Hilkka for taking the time t...

26 apr 11

Flowers everywhere in Borgo a Mozzano:)

You bet I was excited when I read the other day that it was going to be a flower show/festival in a little village not far from here! And whether Justin was equally as excited as I was I will not kno...

18 apr 11

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