WE WILL MISS MAREMMA

Further to Tim Jepson’s Tuscan recommendations (“Think you know Tuscany”, March 24), my wife Penny and I are about to say farewell to our Maremma home after 44 years. We know every road in the area and most of the tracks; we have visited dozens of Etruscan sites and medieval hill towns, beaches, lakes, churches, wineries, hot springs and cold caves. Here are a few things we can recommend:

Alberese’s Parco Naturale della Maremma. A long wild beach and woodland, with possibilities for canoeing, cycling, horse riding and walking.

Enjoy local food and wine anywhere. Morrelino red is very good, but then there is

Brunello at Montalcino. I recommend Villa Patrizia winery near Cana.

Santa Fiora boasts a lovely ice cream in the piazza, a mining museum, a church full of majolica and a medieval trout farm.

On Monte Amiata, you can ski in the winter, but on the road to Roccalbegna is Monte Labbro, with a nature park and wonderful views.

Roccalbegna is a lovely little town with a Lorenzetti triptych in the church and two great restaurants.

Finally, Il Rintocco in Cinigiano. Sit in the intimate space of the small piazza. Fabio and Monica have boundless energy and enthusiasm, and will bring out the fresh fish of the day for you to choose.

We will really miss these things.

ALLAN SWANNELL WINS A £250 RAILBOOKERS VOUCHER