{"id":1400,"date":"2010-03-15T17:24:30","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T17:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottysblog.com\/la-casa-di-franco-italia\/"},"modified":"2010-03-15T17:24:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T17:24:30","slug":"la-casa-di-franco-italia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottysblog.com\/home\/la-casa-di-franco-italia\/","title":{"rendered":"La Casa di Franco, Italia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey peeps, just back from a molto bene <span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 14px\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 15px\"><strong><span style=\"COLOR: #ff007f\">weekend in Italy, staying at the world renowned Casa di Franco<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span>. So that&#39;s Tony&#39;s fab house that he&#39;s had built in the Tuscan\/Umbrian hills.<\/p>\n<p>Tip top highlight for me was definitely our <span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 14px\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 15px\"><span style=\"COLOR: #0000ff; FONT-SIZE: 15px\">lunch in Florence<\/span><\/span><\/span> &#8211; People keep asking &#39;did you see this sight, or that sight&#39; and the answer is, no, we parked (no mean feat in the land of nippy Piaggios and&#0160;Noddy cars), we pottered round a market and then sat in the full on fabulous sunshine and filled our boots with some bloody lovely pasta. Truffle oil truly is a winner. And combined with cheese should be&#0160;virtually illegal, oh so good.<\/p>\n<p>Also managed to buy a lovely leather belt, which for those of you who&#39;ve witnessed me hoiking up my jeans endlessly for the past year, it a true highlight. Its actually long enough to go round my not so svelte shape and reduce the horrors of <strong><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 14px\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 15px\"><span style=\"COLOR: #00bf00; FONT-SIZE: 15px\">&#39;il crack di builders&#39;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong> happening every time I bend over&#8230; A gift from me to you all, enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>Very odd temperatures going on though&#0160;- down to minus 2 as we slid down Tony&#39;s hill on the way back from dinner, with Clare &amp; Janine claiming they&#39;d seen a giant porcupine just to wind me up as I&#39;d been dozing in the back, as we headed at speed towards Tony&#39;s wood burning stove and hot water bottles, then countered with 17 degrees and baking Tuscan sun during the day. A summer &amp; winter holiday all in one! <\/p>\n<p>Many &#39;grazies&#39; to Tony Spanko Freaking for lending us the pad &#8211; and a couple of photos below to prove we were there! <\/p>\n<p>Oh and the one with the ghoul in a sheet&#0160;on was the vino from the supposedly haunted restaurant we ate in &#8211; Caspar the Friendly Ghost on a wine bottle? Eeek&#8230;.&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>S x<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scottysblog.typepad.com\/.a\/6a0105359a4116970b01310fa28ffd970c-pi\" style=\"DISPLAY: inline\"><\/a>PS No laughing at my hair &#8211; not only full on hockey player in comfortable shoes cut, but made even grimmer through the &#39;grey meets ginger&#39; tabby toning at the moment, sigh&#8230;..<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/scottysblog.typepad.com\/.a\/6a0105359a4116970b0120a93bd5a3970b-pi\" style=\"DISPLAY: inline\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"ITALY 009\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a0105359a4116970b0120a93bd5a3970b image-full \" src=\"https:\/\/scottysblog.typepad.com\/.a\/6a0105359a4116970b0120a93bd5a3970b-800wi\" title=\"ITALY 009\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/scottysblog.typepad.com\/.a\/6a0105359a4116970b01310fa295f7970c-pi\" style=\"DISPLAY: inline\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"ITALY 005\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a0105359a4116970b01310fa295f7970c image-full \" src=\"https:\/\/scottysblog.typepad.com\/.a\/6a0105359a4116970b01310fa295f7970c-800wi\" title=\"ITALY 005\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/scottysblog.typepad.com\/.a\/6a0105359a4116970b0120a93bd91e970b-pi\" style=\"DISPLAY: inline\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"ITALY 003\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a0105359a4116970b0120a93bd91e970b image-full \" src=\"https:\/\/scottysblog.typepad.com\/.a\/6a0105359a4116970b0120a93bd91e970b-800wi\" title=\"ITALY 003\" \/><\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey peeps, just back from a molto bene weekend in Italy, staying at the world renowned Casa di Franco. 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