“Champagne on a Monday night, eh?” The cashier winked at me with what he thought was a knowing look.
“Well, it just appeals, and at this price, I don’t really care if I have one glass and dump the rest of the bottle. And it’s not Champagne,” I said with a return wink, “It’s cava.”
While Champagne [...]

Castello di Gabbiano Bellezza, Mercatale Val di Pesa, Tuscany, Italy 2006
Somewhere on the top of a rolling golden hillside in the Mercatale Val di Pesa district of Tuscany sits a young girl, dark cinnamon curls falling over darker cinnamon eyes, renegade red highlights glinting rebelliously off the crown of her chestnut head in the high [...]