tuscany # 17 ~ on the road to find out

The north end of Greve ~ Chianti region of Tuscany • click to embiggenRelative to the following entry, tuscany # 16, this picture depicts a very typical Tuscan landscape. A landscape that is not all that dissimilar to those found here in the Finger Lakes region of NY State or, for that matter, in the nearby (to me) Champlain Valley of the Adirondacks.

I mean, other than all those Italians, Italian cars and Italian drivers, Italian houses with Italian laundry on the line, Italian piazzas with Italian sidewalk cafes with fine Italian food and fine Italian wine, the Italian language, everything measured in metrics, Italian hilltop Renaissance-era villages, what's the difference? At this point, I was still looking for Tuscany.