If you haven’t read or watched “Under the Tuscan Sun”, you might not know Cortona. A typical hillside town, beautiful, steep, adorable! The American woman who visits Tuscany after a mayor disappointment back home, spontaneously buys a house in Cortona, and falls in love with the town, an Italian ragazzo and life in Italy. That’s very easy to experience here. Even the gardener mowing the lawn here at Borgo di Vagli is a ragazzo, charm as can be, movie star potential and the age and testosterone of a picture perfect Italien lover.

We walked around Cortona as much as Ted knee allowed, we had a delicious lunch at Quanto Basta at Piazza Garibaldi and we – I – did some shopping damage in a few cute boutiques and stores in the old town.

We happened to be in Cortona on Monday and it seemed to be laundry day…

Another collection grabbed me while strolling around: mailboxes!

But Cortona is not just a town of laundry and mailboxes, it is – as said before – a town you can easily fall in love with…