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This years vacation goes to Tuscany.
More specifically, we're three families of four nationalities that's renting a farm between Siena and Grosseto.
Any tips on what to do, outside of the standard from the tourist guides?
We're bringing children with us aged 2,3,4,5 and 41.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: aged 2,3,4,5 and 41
I'm starting to see a pattern here ...
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Quote: we're three families of four nationalities
12 people and 12 nationalities? What a very interesting private life you must have. 
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Looks like our current list
5imone wrote: Rosignano Solvay beach, but only have a look
Why only look?
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Google[^] to the rescue! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Quote: The white beaches are a stretch of about four kilometers of sandy coastline of the town of Rosignano Marittimo in Tuscany between the villages of Solvay and the center of the hamlet of Vada. [1] Wet from the Ligurian Sea, [2] are all ' extreme northern edge of the Maremma coast.
The unusual color of the sand, which is why the beach is compared to the tropical coasts, is a result of years of work and the discharge of calcium carbonate from a plant of the Solvay Group, located in Solvay, about a kilometer from coast. [3] The sodiera, which happens to be the largest in Europe, [4] was built in 1912 near the beach, starting its activity in 1914, producing, as well as sodium carbonate, hydrogen peroxide, polyethylene, calcium chloride, sodium bicarbonate and hydrogen chloride. [4] Access to the beach is given by a small hill, which until 1983 (but kept open until 1986) was used as a landfill production waste and domestic waste. [5]
Because of the discharge of Solvay, including therefore the mercury, which is released in the works through electrolysis, and other pollutants, [6] the White Beaches are among the most polluted cities in Italy and fishing adjacent waters is extremely small. [7] [4] In addition, this part of the coast is among the 15 most polluted coastal sites of the Mediterranean Sea, according to the United Nations Environment Programme, the United Nations program for the environment. [8]
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Ah. 
Oh well, there are more beaches, and the house comes with a pool, so it's not to bad.
We even have an extra unused room in the house.  And we're taking turns cooking, so smoked salmon is bound to happen, with pasta, pesto and pine nuts.
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How long will you be there?
You seem to be in the middle distance between Florence and Rome (both will take 2h+ to get there), so if planning day trips it might be too far.
With kids that young, your options for things to do will be limited.
If adults can share babysitting time, then the adults not on duty can probably go visit wineries and olive oil and other product producers.
You can also go to the beaches.
I'd rather be phishing!
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We'll be there for two weeks.
And the house comes with a pool.
In all honesty, we're really looking to relax most of the time, but all of those things you've mentioned is on our list to do.
Rome we intend to do without the kids though. 
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: We're bringing children with us aged 2,3,4,5
And you call this a vacation?!?
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Hi,
I have been waiting for Dilbert to be funny for as long as it's been in print. Same now if not worse with Commit Strip.
I just come away with meh.
I think our industry is either YAY it's working or Damn it's still not. Either the people around us or the projects we are on. Neither of which are particularly humorous unless you are such a noob humanoid that breaking down others is funny.
Am I alone in this?
:Ron
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Yup. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Your point? Refuted[^]
veni bibi saltavi
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This one[^] should be in the FAQs for the QA section.
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I use that Bobby Tables reference a lot with teams when talking about defensive programming ideas. I find myself surprised how few people have come across it.
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Ron Anders wrote: I have been waiting for Dilbert to be funny
You have to have a sense of humor to understand Dilbert. 
He cracks me up. It's so real to life. He has dry humor, I like it.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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RyanDev wrote: You have to have a sense of humor to understand Dilbert.
Here Here.
I worked in an office with a Pointy Haired Like manager,
and a guy who WAS TOTALLY WALLY. While some of the humor is a
little bizzare, I find I totally relate to it. My daughter is Alice.
So much so, that this Halloween, we are doing it Dilbert Themed.
I also think it is "irony" based humor. Just look at the "Watch that predicts when
people will die in a few minutes", and the companies decision to use Scare Tactic ads
(that confuse the users into thinking they may die). Ironic. Almost Realistically sad.
And funny because you know the watch will fail because the business can't figure out how
to get the ads to make revenue. (Truth portion was that good engineering can be undermined
by bad companies. Xerox and the Mouse, GUI, etc.)
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RyanDev wrote: Ron Anders wrote: I have been waiting for Dilbert to be funny
You have to have a sense of humor to understand Dilbert.
A sense of humor and a job. In my 20s, my friends would look through my Dilbert and complain that they just weren't funny. Then one of them got a real job (ie, not cleaning pools or making pizzas) and suddenly they started to understand Dilbert and why it's funny.
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I don't think they are meant to be always "hahahaha" funny
Sometimes you simply smile, or nod, or weep, or say, "yeah, that's life" ...
I'd rather be phishing!
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Are there any comic strips that are funny anymore? Either my sense of humor has been dulled by the years or the comic strips used to actually contain comedy which they don't anymore. I remember as a kid, enjoying all of the Sunday paper comic strips...except for Doonsbury, which I never understood. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Have you seen: http://smbc-comics.com/[^]
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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