Fri 14 August 2015 – Sun 23 Aug 2015

After leaving the Cinque Terre we drove an hour or so north to our next workaway in northern Tuscany. We arrived in time to help our host, Paul change over his guesthouse on Saturday morning for a new family that was arriving. We learned how to clean the pool and then we went for a swim!

The next day was Matt’s birthday. All he wanted for his birthday was to stay in a place with an infinity pool. We thought that a hotel with this kind of luxury would not be affordable but turned out that our host had the most amazing infinity pool overlooking the Tuscan mountains (we have had some great luck on this adventure!).

Our stay with Paul was a last minute thing as we were originally going to head over to Portugal, but after more consideration we decided that we should remain in Italy for the rest of the summer. Unfortunately, after our arrival the weather changed and it wasn’t as hot as it had been and we had a few rainy days so our time in the pool was limited. We did some weeding and watering of Paul’s amazing garden – Natalie loved the pumpkin patch and got to water it every day! We turned over the guesthouse twice and swept and cleaned the very long driveway. Paul was a great host who played the most amazing music and was a great chef (even though some of our dinners started at 10pm). We were so grateful that he was able to take us with such short notice.

During our stay we were contacted by a host in the northern ‘lake district’ of Italy asking if we would like to come and work at their seminar centre. We accepted with the hopes of being able to stay for a few months.

Sorry that we didn’t take a lot of photos or do much exploring during this week and that it has taken a while to post!