Ok, you’re thinking, “what the heck is there to do in Italy that I’d want to vacation at that time of year for?”
I have one word for you. Truffles.
Yes, on weekends in November you have the famous San Miniato truffle fair. San Miniato and the surrounding territory produces about 25% of Tuscany’s white truffles. They’re all at the fair, waiting for you to buy them, along with truffled salamis of all kinds, and restaurants wanting to grate fresh truffles over simple dishes like scrambled eggs or pasta.
In case you didn’t know, grating a truffle over just about anything–including quite possibly a fermenting sweat sock–makes it into an erotic and edible delight. Well, to some folks anyway.
If you were one of those folks, you could rent a little apartment outside San Miniato and just wait for the waft of truffle juices to overcome you in November. You can get one in that building over there to the right for a great price–under 300 Euros for a week in November for two people.
It’s called Vinaccia. It has a pool, which you probably won’t use in November. Although with this global warming thing you never know, do you?
I’ve heard 2007 isn’t a banner year for truffles, but you’ll save enough on a vacation apartment that you can splurge on the truffles. That’s the way I figure anyway.
That’s a cool vacation, I have never really traveled anywhere out of the USA besides to the Caribbean.