Ah! Tuscany: The Enlightenment of an Expatriate

An Expatriate Discovers More than One Way of Saying "Ah! Tuscany"

The author and his wife buy an apartment in Tuscany, furnish it and take up residence there for six months each year. Over subsequent years of assimilation into Tuscan life he records many experiences and observations that are both hilarious and maddeningly frustrating - tales of bureaucracy gone mad, a self-absorbed merciless government in league with uncaring big-business and utilities, and stories of life around his condominium and home town of San Gimignano. They bring to light both positive and negative aspects of Tuscan living that the casual tourist never experiences. From these observations he develops a theory on the factors that contribute to the special Tuscan character. His story supports the thesis that multiple facets of Tuscan life together form a whole that is fuller, more human and more interesting than the beautiful side that he first knew as a tourist.