Thinking of Tuscany, it’s easy to get lost in a daydream of bright sunshine, fields of sunflowers, excellent wine and adorable quaint villages. However, if you visit Italy during the summer “high season,” the reality is often quite different. Those adorable quaint village squares? Packed with tourists. Museums and monuments? Packed with tourists. Local vineyards? Packed with tourists.
In today’s New York Times, Danielle Pergament writes that a guest at her wedding, which took place in Tuscany in the summer, described the region as “beautiful, hot and full of Americans.”
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