Our second farm was also in the Tuscany region, but in Livorno province - very close to the sea. The host family is Scottish and they make amazing wooden toys for a living. After we got to Castagneto Carduci Station about 7pm, Alan took us with him to the night market to sell toys. We didn't get home until about 1am.
It was only to our surprise, when we realized that we'll be attending night markets 6 times a week. But the Euro Cup was on at that time so we spent most of the time in the pub watching the games:)
Days were filled with workshop small or bigger jobs like toy sanding, making and balancing flying birds, gluing wooden fish, painting, drilling and lots more.
Jo loved every second of it, Alex complained a bit about lack of free time for himself (none).
Don't get the impression that we only worked – we managed to spend a weekend in Elba where we rented a scooter and had a great time. Alex also went spear fishing with Steven – their son for a couple of days. Great swimming and snorkeling conditions, sleeping under the stars...
At the end of our stay Jo got given the Heron – her favorite toy, it will be fun to bring it back to Australia.
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very cool holiday guys!
and great Piccies... keep up the good blogging. its certainly not your typical tour of europe. Brett
Thanks for that Brett! Its good to know that people appreciate the blog... Its hard trying to write interesting comments and post pictures when you have all of europe waiting at your (car)doorstep!
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tonight we are in andorra - hopefully it adds a couple of hours to our life expectancy as wiki says this ´The people of Andorra are currently listed as having the highest human life expectancies on Earth, at an average of 83.5 years at birth´
Very cool country, like a miniature version of Switzerland! Tomorrow we are exploring 4000 metre mountains, should b e great
After a bit more reading, Andorra is apparently a tax haven - they pay zero income tax... maybe that is why they live so long!!? ;)
I love your updaited main pictures on the blog :)
Working and living on farms looks fantastic, beekeepers, toys makers what is next? Keep updating the pics , we love them even that we are really jealous... arghhhh
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