A Summer in Tuscany

A Summer in Tuscany is an insiders guide to making the Italian vacation more enjoyable. The author gives the reader the confidence to travel to smaller towns where English is often not spoken to live Italian. There are lessons to be learned about food wine cooking shopping driving and the Italian language. That said once opened the book is hard to close. Swansons writing style is similar to a good conversation with a friend. She writes in a visual way so that one can see exactly what she describes. The reader feels that they are at her side whether driving a perilous road bargaining at the marketplace dodging snakes or sipping wine amid the vineyards.