{"id":27008,"date":"2026-05-27T13:27:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T20:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/?p=27008"},"modified":"2026-10-09T10:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T17:35:10","slug":"tuscany-hotels-travel-diary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/tuscany-hotels-travel-diary\/","title":{"rendered":"A Week Beneath the Tuscan Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Some places lived in your imagination long before you ever arrived. For me, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/luxury-hotels\/europe\/italy\/tuscany\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tuscany<\/a> was one of them. At the beginning of the year, I had even pinned a photo of the region to my vision board\u2014its stone villages had been etched in my memory for years. Despite countless trips to Italy, I\u2019d somehow never made it beyond the cities and coastlines into the countryside I\u2019d always dreamed of. So when a free week appeared in my spring schedule, I took it as a sign. My friend, Anh-Thi, and I booked a flight to Pisa, reserved a rental car and mapped out seven days of hilltop citadels, vineyard lunches and winding roads through olive groves. Along the way, we stayed at two dreamy Tuscany hotels.<br><br>Here are the highlights of my Tuscan escape:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-rank-math-toc-block\" id=\"rank-math-toc\"><nav><ul><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shelbi Okumura lives her vision board dream in Tuscany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26981,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"stoc_hidden_slugs":"[\"about-the-author-shelbi-okumura-is-a-san-francisco-based-content-creator-who-has-traveled-to-more-than-55-countries-around-the-world-follow-bucketlistbumsfor-her-adventures-travel-guides-and-wanderlust-inspiration\",\"about-the-author-shelbi-okumura-is-a-san-francisco-based-content-creator-who-has-traveled-to-more-than-55-countries-around-the-world-follow-bucketlistbums-for-her-adventures-travel-guides-and-wanderlust-inspiration\"]","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3120,2578,3541,4451,3119,18,15,3550,4035,2685,2482,4450,1410,92,4449],"class_list":["post-27008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-diaries","tag-barberino-tavarnelle","tag-borgo-san-felice","tag-borgo-san-felice-resort","tag-bucket-list-bums","tag-como-castello-del-nero","tag-europe","tag-italy","tag-pr003056","tag-pr003567","tag-province-of-siena","tag-san-felice","tag-shelbi-okumura","tag-siena","tag-tuscany","tag-tuscany-hotels"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27008"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28218,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27008\/revisions\/28218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}