I highly recommend KM Zero Tours. I wish I could ...

I highly recommend KM Zero Tours. I wish I could give it 6 stars out of 5. The owners, Arianna and Alessio, are two of the most generous, caring, and REAL people we've ever met. When we first met them, I did not feel like a customer, I felt like a long-time friend. And by the end of time with them we felt like part of their family. Not only do they share themselves, they share their good friends - people that love and care for them and want to show us all a great time. Everything was direct and personal. As an example, when it was time to visit a winery, we did not tour a massive commercial winery - we visited a family vineyard where the owner and her family make wine in the cellar of their villa. We visited with matriarch of the villa, a woman who invited us to lunch at her dining table where she fed us her food, and served us her wine and her olive oil, made right there on her property.

The trip consisted of two visits each day to a point of interest in Tuscany, such as Sienna (my favorite), or San Gimignano (also my favorite), and in between the sightseeing we would visit their friends, who do cool things like cashmere goat farming, or truffle hunting, or pressing fresh olive oil during the harvest, or raising goats and making goat cheeses. One night we learned how to make bread in the Tuscan tradition (no salt). Another night it was a lesson on how to make pasta, followed by a dinner accompanied by a harpist and professional opera singer. At night they would return us to the centuries-old stone farm house of their friends who run a fantastic bed and breakfast and serve the best limoncello ever. On our last night they treated us to dinner at a friend s restaurant and we ate until I thought pasta was going to come out of my ears.

In short, their approach is exactly what we needed, and we think about our trip and Alessio and Arianna every single day. They changed our lives and the way we look at the world. I make pasta now (albeit I cheat and use a machine). I bake bread constantly (but I use salt). I demand more from my espresso, and I practically bathe in olive oil always checking the dates to makes sure it is fresh (which is bright green). I drink Chianti Classico because now I know that real Chianti Classico will have a black rooster on the label, and will be rich and fruity and delicious.

Jen and I cannot wait to go back and see them again, not only because we loved Tuscany, but because I cannot wait to visit our friends again.