First and foremost, I’d like to thank my sister for bugging me while I’m trying to remember all the cool things I did today.  So, thanks, Tracy.

So!  Today we spent WINEding around Chianti!  Get it!?!  Because the roads are all curvy and they ferment grapes!!  Whew, Sutton’s on a roll.  Point being, we drove around in Chianti.  And it was awesome.  We started off just kinda meandering, as we are wont to do, especially if I’m busy checking Twitter when I am supposed to be navigating.  JK, I don’t do that.  But we checked out some vineyards and olive..  um, farms, i guess.  I think most places that make wine also make olive oil.  Like peas and carrots or Campari and vermouth.  So that was cool.  We also nearly drove right into the middle of a little village market, then Becca had to do a (twenty-)three point turn in a crowded tiny street with about twenty people watching her.  But she nailed it and got an old guy to smile, so it was a victory.

Greve in Chianti is the name of a town.  Honestly, it’s kind of boring, but maybe we didn’t do it right.  Also, it was a Sunday so I think we didn’t get an ideal experience.  Point being, Montepulciano>>Greve.  Then we went to San Gimignano, which will get its own post momentarily.  We also finally succeeded in spending a reasonable amount of money on lunch.  (We have a bad habit, hopefully broken, of going to fan$$y restaurants for snacks and it’s something else.)  We played the guess-the-nationality game for awhile in the town square and got our minds blown by some stealth Americans.

From Saint G, we drove up to La Spezia, where we’re staying.  It’s a weird town- half of it is industrial port with the accompanying industrial ugliness, and the other half is a weird party town with pink neon lights and sunglasses at night.  Our b&b hostess is very well-dressed and always ready for a night on the town, which we appreciate.  AND we got terrible pizza for dinner- see below.

BUT I’m kinda lying!  As we were driving to La Spezia, we realized that we were really close to Pisa and we should probably drop in and see how the Pisaians do things.  So we did!  And it was awesome.  I can’t believe we nearly missed the leaningest tower in the world to save twnety minutes on a drive.  It’s very white and it’s surrounded by tourist tschotchkiolos, and it is deserving of it’s own post, which is forthcoming.