Winter in Tuscany can be cold and wet but spring always seems to come quickly. March is azalea and camelia time, whilst April and May are sometimes very wet months.

Tuscany's airports are Pisa's Galileo Galilei and Florence's Amerigo Vespucci. Trains run frequently from a stones through from the Galileo Galilei airport, and it's about an hour's ride to Florence. From Amerigo Vespucci airport it's a 20-minute bus ride from the centre of Florence.