Many houses cling to the hillsides around the whole of Northern Tuscany. This house above us sits next to a road but many can be very isolated. Some are lucky enough to have a track but some can only be accessed by a mule track so you can imagine years ago before roads were constructed, life was very hard and people had to survive on only the food they produced. Visiting another village in the next valley would have been like us now visiting another country!
