Word: tuscans
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...Minding Her Manners In her review of the Tuscan hotel L'Andana [Sept. 4], Catherine Mayer says the general manager might remember her as "the Guest from Hell: high maintenance, capricious and, quite frankly, badly behaved." She adds, "I was only doing my job." But was it really necessary for her to engage in the absolutely obnoxious behavior she went on to describe? I'm sure that by the time she and her companions got through with the staff and management of L'Andana, the smug trio left behind more than a few bad feelings. I have close friends...
...boiled water on the stove for sponge baths for three days until French repairmen appeared. "The French have a different sense of urgency," Conlon says dryly. That hasn't deterred the couple from planning a regular sabbatical, however. Who can resist playing English cottager, Parisian apartment dweller or Tuscan farmhouse owner--if only for a short while...
...very least, said Tarak Ben Ammar, Murdoch's go-to guy in Italy: "The water in Greece is really clean ... and the company was very good." Meanwhile a bit farther north, Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi had just wrapped up a notably more austere Mediterranean holiday in the Tuscan coastal town of Castiglione della Pescaia. Prodi could bask in several recent Italian successes on his beach break: a key role in the Lebanon cease-fire, and a merger of Sanpaolo IMI and Banca Intesa to give Italy its first major European banking player. But by the second week of September...
...same dates to review the hotel and its famed restaurant, La Trattoria Toscana. Together with G.'s swanlike girlfriend, we put that hotel through its paces. We chomped through the menu in the Trattoria and raced, super-charged, through the super[an error occurred while processing this directive] Tuscans in its cellars. We slept through breakfast, a vast help-yourself spread of cakes, pastries, cured meats, cheeses and fruits, only to emerge in the late morning, demanding the kitchen reopen to provide us with brunch. Our evening antics - well, I'll come to those. Suffice to say for now that...
...splendid cliffside view provides much of Il Pellicano's appeal. So too does its creative, homegrown Tuscan cuisine. But what ultimately makes this hotel in Porto Ercole, Italy, a don't-miss on the Mediterranean luxury tour is something that you can't quite see or taste. It's in the way that the pool staffer hands you a towel without missing a beat, or[an error occurred while processing this directive] how the sommelier suggests a wine without jamming it down your palate. The only word that can capture this particular brand of indulgence all'Italiana is simpatico...