Florence and more farm pictures

 CHEESE!

Coagulation and Cutting the Curd (this helps the whey come out)

 Cooking the curds to make a hard cheese

             

  Curds in their molds

                                                               Going for a goat walk

                                                                          Home again!

Valle di Mezzo

Tuscany is COLD!

We've arrived in Tuscany where we've been put up at a gorgeous villa up in the mountains.  It's beautiful, picturesque, charming.  BUT  there's no heat.  And its been snowing.
Well there's a little heat, and we've been relaxing and compiling all the available comforters.  Here are some photos and some extras from Rome.  We start work and return to the land of the heated on Thursday.

Ummm . . . Tom . . .

 Tom, I think we took a wrong turn somewhere . . .

Ooops. you caught us.  We're in Rome!! somehow . . .  Well it happened like this:  Argentina wasn't teaching us much about cheesemaking, or farming at all really.  As beautiful and lovely as the people and landscapes were, turns out its not the number one best place to learn how to make cheese, which is, we decided, our main prerogative.  And well, no time like the present I suppose. Carpe Diem!  So we hopped a plane from Buenos Aires to Milan via Sao Paulo, where everything that ends in an "n" takes a turn for the cat-like, meaning we flew to Millleow.  It happened to be fashion week.  Don't worry, we blended right in with our "hiking boot" chic.

We got ourselves on the schedule of a goat farm in north eastern Tuscany outside of Arezzo (http://www.valledimezzo.com/home )  And a month long stint near the magical town of Carcassonne near the French Pyrennes. But until work starts . . . Rome!! Gelato!! Vespas!!

Lots of Pictures

Fast Internet means lots of pictures for everyone back home, enjoy....

More Cooking/Baking at Granja Los Pinos

Hiking to Cajon Del Azul

Goodbyes at Granja Los Pinos

Buenos Aires

Recoleta Cemetery