We have returned from this beautiful house after an amazing 2 week holiday. Where to start - the people, nothing was too much trouble for Fiona and Angelo, pre arrival shopping, directions and even allowing us to indulge our gardening passion in letting us deadhead the beautiful roses. The house was spacious enough to allow our large group enough space for privacy with great together spaces like the large verandah where we ate every meal! The kitchen and utility room are well equipped and ample enough to support the whole gang. The bedrooms were lovely, cool, spacious with loads of storage space, 3 well equipped bathrooms meant no queues. The pool area was the star of the show, a brilliant pool - same depth throughout meaning a real swim or fair volley ball. The sun beds were great not the usual flimsy type and the lighting meant plenty of late night dips. As well as the kitchen there's a good b-b-q close enough to the table to ensure the cook is always part of the action. The location is excellent for Pisa, Lucca, Florence, Cinque Terre and the lovely Tuscan countryside, we drove down and got the ferry to Elba, it's lovely, 25 euros per adult or 150 euros for the car and all passengers. There's plenty of supermarkets, Carre Four in Lucca is best but you need a geography or orienteering badge to find it - so do a big shop. Just down the road is the lovely ice cream parlour, closer - at the bottom of the lane is a great deli Bellinis and for a taste of local life visit the bar. Lucca stole our hearts, it's lovely far superior to Pisa, great eateries, go to the opera in the church 18euros and well worth it. The boys found the real ale bar - great beer, a real alternative experience, the girls found cocktails a few doors down and a lovely outside garden. Walk the walls, eat nougat and buy beautiful handmade handbags, the perfect place every night we always found great food at reasonable prices - 7euros for pizza and 9 euros for a good main. Public transport is brilliant, buses to Pisa and Lucca are regular and the train to Florence from Lucca is 8 euros and avoids the drive. We've done many owners direct holidays which have all been good with accurate descriptions, but this lovely property tops the list for accuracy and meeting our varied ideas of a perfect house/holiday villa. I have recommended it to family and work colleagues, if you are looking for magical memories ... Love Rowena, Peter and the whole tribe.