Tuscany was everything we thought it would be and more. We had a wonderful time staying in Castellina in Chianti and driving to various locations from there. We went to the Greve wine festival last week and it was a blast, I would recommend that to anyone going next September. We drove to Pisa for a day, understand it is kind of like driving to say Mt. Rushmore, you will go, spend the day behind the wall seeing the attractions and you will most likely never have a need to go to Pisa again. We spent two days driving into Florence, we parked at the Piazza de Michelangelo and walked down to the city both days. It is truly an amazing place to see Florence from. We did the Uffizi and Accademia in the same day, 11am for one and 3pm for the other....it was easy to do because we bought our tickets online in advance, which I highly recommend. The second day we went in about noon, did some shopping and took a cooking class from 5:30 to 9:00 in Florence, it was a ton of fun.