Comments on: The Killing Batteries Best (and Worst) of Tuscany list for 2009

By: Nomadic Matt

Nomadic Matt — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:43:19 +0000

you lead a hard life….

By: Eva & Jeremy Rees

Eva & Jeremy Rees — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:58:39 +0000

Loved this post! Especially all the impeccable record keeping regarding bad drivers and bad signage. We’re feeling your pain here in Portugal, but clearly more coffee is the solution.

By: elfin

elfin — Fri, 29 May 2009 22:14:53 +0000

“people might be inclined to stay longer, giving them more money and less work turning over the rooms. Capice?”

It’s “CAPISCE” sweety, not “Capice(pr. CAPISH)”.

That’s what Robert DeNiro and Joe Pesci say in movies when they want to prove they come from bottom lower class Italy in America aspiring to a place in the under lower mob in some 3d rate US movie . (And they wouldn’t be saying it if they were from tuscany either!)
Tourists ,(unless tall, blond and drop down dead gourgeous!) please! do make an effort not to make this sort of mistake.Italians differently from the French don’t take offense but, in the decades have become tired with being identified with movies with a people who didn’t know/speak Italian in the first place.
The only person I know in 2009 who says “capish”,is our beloved author( and DeNiro,Al Pacino,Joe Pesci) and I know that, ’cause every time he said it I begged him to stop( I felt a sudden unexplicable urge to throttle him on hearing him imitating joe pesci….)
sorry but i just had to dot those I’s

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:26:49 +0000

Great post, probably more awesome than usual (which is really saying something). I’m adding these restaurants to my list of places to check out on my next trip.

I tell you what, nothing in the world would induce me to drive a car in Italy unless I was the only car on the roads at the time. NO WAY.

By: Christine

Christine — Thu, 28 May 2009 03:36:16 +0000

Thank you so much for this post and for talking solely about the smaller towns in Tuscany. My family is visiting southern Tuscany and staying in north Umbria so this article was a perfect guide for where to go, etc on our day trips to these towns!! Sooo excited to see Cortona for the first time! Keep it up this was great!