Spa Spy: indulgent antiageing treatment centre in the Tuscan hills (Daily Telegraph) Our health sleuth investigates the spa at Villa Lucia Vorno near Lucca Tuscany

Business Briefs (The Herald News) PLAINFIELD --Bella Bistro, 24047 W. Lockport St., is now open. The bistro is open from 6:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays for coffee and a Tuscany-style breakfast and lunch.

Leave a comment (Stuff) When I was a kid I lived in a place we called the Wairarapa. It's taken a long while to discover it was possibly Provence, or maybe Tuscany.

Cable Bay Vineyards, Waiheke (The New Zealand Herald) A bloke I know bought a place on Waiheke Island. It was 1973. You couldn't see the sea from it - it was a three-room fibro bach tucked up the end of a dirt road - but you couldn't see another house, either. It cost him $1500, which he raised by way of an overdraft on his cheque account.

Soler and Hunter working hard to get ready for the 2009 cycling season (Roadcycling) Team Barloworld's first training camp of 2009 will take place in Tuscany on February 2-11; the team's leading riders are working hard to start the 2009 cycling season with a bang.

Perfect 10: This week's news and to-dos (New York Daily News) Writers logging on to Cowrite's contest can collaborate on a real movie script! Contest judges will pick the best 10-page submission every other week and tack it onto the developing story.

Monday January 05, 2009 - 12:53 EST (Rolling Good Times) The courses that follow are what pass for low-dollar golf in and around Vegas, particularly around. For no real reason other than I can -- or had to -- I set the coin-outlay threshold at about $150 at the high-season-rack end of the scale, though most here cost less, often much less.

2008 Top 10 for Southlake (Southlake Times) After much opposition and more than 13 months of work with the city and council, Jeff Kennemer, Hines Developer for the Carillon project, finally saw his project passed by city council, 7-0, on Nov. 18.

Soler and Hunter ready for the 2009 season (Daily Peloton) Team Barloworld will hold their first training camp of 2009 in Tuscany between February 2-11 at the Hotel Campastrello (Livorno), but the team's leading riders are already working hard for the new season.

Faith put in Pelican Hill staff (Daily Pilot) The last of 1.1 million hand-cut glass tiles have been laid in the circular pool and the final olive tree planted at the 504-acre Resort at Pelican Hill.