As you say beach in post#10 do you mean Marina di Grosseto to be precise?
http://www.mareimmobiliare.it/images/marina-01.jpg
Never been there (nor experienced an Italian lover) but seems to be not far from Chiantishire (the joke name given to Tuscany which so many Brits. like and where they have bought homes).
Btw as afewgoodmen is rather unusual as a nom de plume, are you a Tom Cruise fan? (the 1992 movie about charges against three US Marines).