Last Day in Tuscany: Fantasia di Mare

Can it really be our last day in Toscana? The original plan was to go to Volterra; however, a small but amicable mutiny erupted as no one wanted to venture further than Montepulciano. Since we had not done a lot in Montepulciano previously during this trip, we elected to walk throughout the town and check out some of the “Twilight” movie-related locations at the top of the town. We climbed to the top of the City Hall to a rooftop viewing area and then went by the music academy and listened to the haunting strains of chamber and symphony music which sounded better nowhere on earth than in the streets of a Tuscan hill town.



  We "bumped" into some of our fellow guests that we had met at the dinner at Sant' Antonio.  All were enjoying their last day in Toscana close to "home" and buying last minute souvenirs. 

Out last lunch in Montepulciano was at the reasonably priced  Trattoria di Cagnano. We were lucky enough to snag an outside table overlooking the main Corso. My sister and I usually made a habit to split an antipasti. Today we decided to order something called the Fantasia di Mare, totally forgetting what the translation meant and assuming it was another assortment of mouth watering crostini.  Wrong!  This enormous seafood extravaganza made its way to our table.  It was so large that all the diners in on the patio turned around to watch as it made its progression to our table!!! At this point Carla and Riley had gone to use the restroom .  Brent burst out laughing when it was placed in front of me, because my sister and I had also ordered a primi.  My sister could not believe it when she came back to the table. By the way, Fantasia di Mare, loosely translated means  "fantasy of seafood".  Nothing to do with Crostini at all. 

This is just the antipasti!  More food coming!

After our lunch (which I could not finish) we went back to Sant' Antonio to begin the process of packing.  Never a fun thing to do when you don't really want to leave the location you are vacationing in.

For our last dinner- all of us but Riley decide to go over to neighboring Pienza once again for a quick bite.  Riley decided she wanted to stay "home" and eat what we had accumulated in the fridge.  Honestly, I think she just wanted some alone time away from the adults.

Strolling around Pienza we decided upon a place small place and had each had a wonderful Crespelle ; a wonderful crepe filled with cheese and vegetables and shared crostini with white beans . After dinner it was back to packing for our departure to Venice in the morning.