Under the Tuscan Sun

Now we've moved from a spectacularly beautiful urban environment to a spectacularly beautiful pastoral environment in the Tuscan countryside outside of Florence.  Here's a panoramic view that Brad took last night.

 

And some photos of the place:

  

 We played tennis this morning on clay courts with visiting friends Mark and Pam Solon.  The clay shouldn't have surprised us since most European courts are clay surface, but it did.  We'll probably play every day, and have other tennis playing friends arriving next week.  It is definitely hot, and we're shifting into the Italian pacing of getting up early while it's cool, then a nice long afternoon siesta, then later dinner.  

And the wireless is obviously working quite well –