Travel Europe
Along with that many tourist and travelers are not willing to pay 5 star prices for accommodations. Many middle-aged are willing to have a nice clean room that is perhaps smaller and has a shared bath - you aren’t going to live in the room and you didn’t come to another country to spend a lot of time in the room - could have stayed home and done that.
What draws people to Tuscany? For some, it's Renaissance art and architecture. For those of us who like the Lunigiana, Tuscany's almost tourist-free northern region, it's the Lunigiana's rural qualities, the verdant green countryside brimming with fine produce (and castles!), the neighborly atmosphere, and not least of all the summer's sagre--festivals celebrating the bounty of the countryside. We've just attended one such celebration in a nearby village, called the Sagra di Ravioli, where we were served the best spaghetti with mussels we've ever tasted, followed by a mixed grill of local sausage, chicken and pork ribs. They threw in a bottle of local vino for the amazing price of €2.50, and the meal came with a pile of fantastic homemade focaccia with rosemary. The atmosphere was just like a church social in the bible belt--minus the jello molds and cool whip.
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