Characterful family home. Great outdoor space. Lovely pool. Amazing view.

Too far for restaurants and the road to villa was very difficult

Beautiful location with great views from the house. House is very spacious with very tradition Italian furniture. Plenty of seating, dishes and cooking implements etc. Bathrooms were well equipped. Pool was lovely with ample loungers and the grounds were well kept. The gym wasn't up to much, but we were there for a holiday, and the table tennis was great for the family. The only thing to be aware of is that the driveway is very steep in places with a sharp bend in it - we had a long estate car (Skoda Superb) and could not get round the bend in one go.

A lovely location, about a 10 minute winding drive up a hillside, with sweeping views across the valley to the hills and mountains the other side. The house is a typical converted Italian farm house, simply furnished but with everything that we needed. We all loved the sweeping views from the small patio outside the kitchen and from the good sized pool and sun bathing patio. One evening an electric storm over the mountains the other side of the valley provided some wonderful scenes while we sat back and enjoyed cards and wine in the warm evening air. While you can get bread and some basic items from the two bars in the village we found it easier to use the many different shops that are 10 to 20 minutes drive from the house and in particular a supermarket about 20 minutes drive along the main road. There are many lovely locations, villages and restaurants that we visited over the 10 days that we stayed. A five hour round trip into the hills behind the house took us up through some glorious and quite isolated countryside. Crossing to the other side of the valley there are numerous restaurants and villages well worth visiting such as Barga. We travelled by train to Lucca and thoroughly enjoyed our visit there, although the drive is really just as simple. Unusually for a rented house we found that there was no 'book of words'. This would be very helpful in a number of ways. Examples of what might be included are: - Instructions on how to work items such as the coffee machine, washing machine, dishwasher and tv - Instructions of where to find the main fuse box (outside the house in a locked cabinet) in case the main fuse trips (which it did while we were there) - Location of nearest chemist and/or doctor - An in-house reminder of check-out time A beautiful part of Italy and a house that provides both a lovely location for relaxing in the sun as well as for exploring the countryside, towns and villages that can be easily accessed from it.