General Discussion & Chat: I Got you Babe, ...part 2., 1 by Seedtosser1

Seedtosser1 wrote:
Ahhhh, Italy take me away.

So sorry to interrupt my story. Life has been crazy busy and now with the long weekend, I am off again to Wisconsin!
But I thought We all could take a break away from it all and return to the country.

Dixie, you bet we gypsies would have loads of fun on a trekk throughout Europe!

Hey Sistah Joyce! So glad you came on the Journey too.

Waiving hi to all and Benvenuti (warm welcome) to Castellino Bucine!

Armed with the GPS and the written directions we received from the owners, we arrived without too much incident...Only a slight detour on our part as we typed in the wrong spelling so the Thelma took us to a different location! We were so boggled as the place did not look like the castle in the photo. So we had to regroup on what was up with that. Finally, when all else failed we re-read the owners directions! Had to laugh at ourselves and reset Thelma with the correct information and again on the right road. According to Owners directions, we would come to a Church right in front of us, which we never did see. Although, we had just missed the only day of Market in town. They were busily packing things up, while we drove trying to find the castle. Thelma had said we have arrived so where the heck was it? LOL We kept driving in Circles then finally asked some men sitting out having a chat. Steve took his handy dandy words of survival, asked the man if he knew where this address was, showed him the meet and greet lady's phone #, well what a delightful help, he then whips out his cell phone and calls her for us. She tells the man she will be right up, As she is saying this I happened to look up myself and see the words ...Castellino! OMG we had driven up and down that same very steep and majorly skinny road several times. So again We offer our Gratsi to the man and make the drive back up the steep and skinny road, We still do not see the entrance so we decide to park in the parking lot and hike back to look for the #'s of the houses. Ahhh, success, we found it! So we look for the hidden key and couldn't find that! LOL, we were just batting a thousand, just then the lady came. Speaking very tiny amount of English, sigh.

She opened the door turning the key 5 times!! We looked at each other with giggling eyes and went in and up.
The lady, showed us everything and handed us the keys in trade for the rest of the rental fee and big us a good time.