Tuscany - more detail

For Tuscany we have pretty much settled on the idea of staying at one place and doing day trips by bicycle or car to places of interest.  The two such places on the list currently are:

• Hotel Prategiano in Montieri, Tuscany - about 50 km west of Siena.
• Pie di Costa in Montaione, Tuscany (more information on Montaione) - about 50km WSW of Florence and 60 km NW of Siena.

Hotel Prategiano has reasonable rates.  I won't publish them here as the quote is between the hotel and us.  They also have bicycle hire available at about 25 euro/day.

 Pie di Costa is an 'Agriturismo' place which has several apartments for rental so the basis for this is different to the Hotel Prategiano.  Since the apartments are self-catering we would have to make a choice between eating in some days or driving to a restaurant or trattoria for dinner.  They also don't have bicycles for hire but we can get those delivered to the farm through here.

Also I have been giving some thought to what I want to see in Tuscany:

• Florence
• Siena
• Lucca and Pisa
• Pienza and Montepulciano
• San Gimignano

There are bound to be others but those are my 'musts'.