Villa With Swimming Pool In Tuscany

David Cameron plays waiter to Samantha in Tuscany

"I was rushing around, really busy, so when he asked me to bring over the coffees I told him he would have to do it himself."

Her brusque treatment of the Prime Minister may have left her out of pocket. Mr Cameron paid the €3.10 (£2.71) bill with a €50 note and left no tip. "I was a bit surprised about that because I'm told he's quite wealthy," said Miss Ariani.

The Camerons met the mayor of Montevarchi, who presented them with a bronze medallion bearing the town's medieval coat of arms.

"Nobody really knew who he was," said Giustino Bonci, a local television reporter. "He was dressed in a blue shirt and blue trousers. He looked like any other British tourist." The Camerons are staying with two families in an 18th-century villa a few miles from Montevarchi.

Downing Street officials said the Prime Minister would not have any more public engagements during his fortnight-long holiday. The villa costs £9,700 a week and aides have said that Mr Cameron is paying his family's share, £5,800, out of his own pocket.

The Camerons arrived at the house, Villa Petrolio, which sits on a hill surrounded by vineyards, olive groves and woods, on Saturday after flying from City Airport, east London, to Florence.

They were welcomed by the estate's owner, Baron Luca Sanjust, 51, and sat down to a dinner of home-made pasta and the estate's prize-winning Sangiovese and Merlot wines.

Mr Cameron and his wife began their holiday yesterday with a game of tennis on the estate's court, before spending time around the swimming pool with their three children and with friends.

They enjoyed perfect weather – blue skies and temperatures of 90F (32C).

The villa, which appears in celebrity chef Jamie Oliver's cookbook Jamie's Italy, comes with a gardener, a pool attendant, maid service five days a week, and a pizza oven.

It has 15 bedrooms, a billiards room and sweeping views of the surrounding countryside. Sauro Testi, the mayor of the nearby hill-top town of Bucine, said: "This is the wilder part of [the] Chianti [region] – there's less cultivation and two thirds of the area is covered by forest.

"It's a great pleasure to have the Prime Minister stay here. We hope he'll enjoy his visit."

The area the Camerons have chosen for their holiday is a favourite with celebrities at this time of year.

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