Sometimes you go to a wine tasting and hate wine.

Luckily, at the wine tasting I attended, there was also delicious food and gorgeous views!  This wine tasting, in a Chianti vineyard, was part of a "Tour of Tuscany".  It began with Sienna  where I experienced my first Italian hot chocolate, which is essentially chocolate melted and poured into a cup.  It was so rich I had to have help finishing it... which is really saying something.  After lunch and the wine tasting we visited San Gimignano, a very small town that still has its renaissance-era towers and walls for protection.  The day ended in Pisa, with quite a few typical tourist-y pictures holding up the tower, and a guided tour of the many palaces of Pisa.