It was 17th April 2022, the Easter Sunday, I along with two friends Tharun and Sebastian decided to go on a one-day trip to one of the famous hot spring water, Saturnia in Tuscany. It is around 125 km from Siena, the city from where we were departing. As it was an unplanned trip, we just took a light lunch at my place at around 13:00, and we departed at 15:00 from Siena.
Luckily the weather was clean and it was a pure bright sunny spring day. The beautiful landscapes of Tuscan land were mesmerizing to encounter during the travel. When you see these amazing views with your naked eye, you get lost in yourself in this miracle of nature and feel reborn. The atmosphere was quite magical. The blue sky was perfectly complementing the green fields embellishing the beauty, providing an unprecedented level of tranquility, peace, and satisfaction to your mind.
At around 17:00, we reached our destination. As usual, we had to find a place to park our car. We got to know that there were some free parking areas from some other visitors. But finding parking in an unknown place is really difficult. Fortunately, we found a parking area at Terme di Saturnia Natural Spa and Gold Resort, which was however reserved for the people visiting the resort. It can be really hard to find a parking spot during high season, and this aspect has to be kept in attention if anyone wants to visit the place. Being a festive day of Easter, the area was not so crowded, as we managed to park the car in the parking lot of the resort. Then, we started to search the natural free Terme, which is called Cascate del Mulino. Since we were running out of time, we rushed toward this spot with the help of google maps.
15 minutes of walk from the Resort got us to our main destination, i.e., Terme di Cascate del Mulino. Suddenly the climate changed and amid the beautiful bright sun, a strong breeze of winds started. This forced the temperature to get lowered. Since I had some problems with my throat, I decided not to enter inside the warm water as the possibility of catching the cold was higher after getting off the pool. On the other side, Tharun and Sebastian were already inside the water enjoying the warmth and calmness. Meanwhile, I started to capture more pictures of the view. The hot springs contain a lot of sulphur and smell like rotten eggs. A pretty good bath in your home after will help in disappearing sulphur coated to your skin. But don’t worry, they won’t harm you at all.
After a two-hour stay in the pool, they came out of it. They were shivering from the cold and so changed their dresses immediately. We started to get going. We spent some time searching for some airbnbs or hotels, but all of the places were busy. Then, at around 20:00, we headed towards Siena.
The google maps this time did some magic for us as it showed a completely different route than the one taken for coming. Anyways, this new route was better in terms of the quality of the pitch and do not pass through mountains. After a 25 min drive, we stopped at a completely unknown town without having an idea of where he landed. Later we found out the name of the town was “Scansano”.
Dinner at Pizzeria Civico 4, Scansano
We decided to have dinner if there were any restaurants open in the town. And unfortunately, none of the restaurants was open except one called Pizzeria Civico 4. It was a kind of strange place as we entered the pizzeria, we didn’t see any reception. We entered through a door of the pizzeria where a group of nearly 15-20 people was about to dine with a few kids playing around. We confused the place with a private party and thought to leave. But we finally went inside to get some information about the the Pizzeria. After some minutes, a sweet long-faced girl aged 20-25, dressed in a casual outfit came to us and managed to arrange a table for us. We ordered three Pizzas of our choice and two chilled beers. I ordered Quattro Foramaggi which I must say was really good! Very stuffed, tasty, and perfectly cooked. After the dinner, we drove directly to Siena and reached home at 1:00.
In the end, the trip was interesting, even though was short, we enjoyed it to the fullest, ate very well in an unknown town, and spent the right amount, which I am sure will surely cherish for the rest of our lives.
Oh, what a pleasure it was to read that. It must have been a really fun trip. The place must be like heaven.We may also be lucky to be able to travel, or the world would be happy to travel You like to read new things to have fun.anyway tcre your self.waiting next intrested thins soon.
Thank you