Chianti

Travelling further into the chianti region, the countryside was even more beautiful. We found a road that took us straight through many of the picturesque villages so we followed that. We happened across the first one on a market day, it was spilling out from the streets and there were no parks at all in the car park, so we parked illegally and ran through the market, picking up fresh fruit as we did so. There were also lovely cheese and salami stalls but we didn't really have the time to stop as we were worried about the car.

We then came across a little medieval pathway and decided we just had to explore a little bit so we ended up sprinting down near deserted medieval streets, it was glorious.

The little green shutters decorating the old buildings were very picturesque. There were also old wine barrels full of flowers to compete the picture. 

We went further down the old tunnels which I found very exciting. 

We then had to run back to the car and continue on before we were towed or fined. 

A mysterious underground stair in the next town also had us stopping to explore. 

This was the last town we went to as the weather was starting to get very bad making the already narrow country roads even harder to drive. 

After wistfully staring at this sign: 

And looking at the strange hanging vegetables that were heavily reminiscent of toad from Mario kart:

We left for hopefully warmer weather.