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Find sulfuric natural hot springs in nearby Saturnia. With the explicit detail, bulleted info, and accessible functionality that have become DK's calling card, my traveling companions and I easily find the springs. Sitting in the warming, therapeutic waters, we're joined primarily by locals finding a little calm before their own storms; with the olive and grape harvests long finished and markets stocked with winter vegetables, it's coming to the end of in-between time. Olive trees are leafing, and grapes will start in a couple of weeks. When we arrive at a vineyard's shop in the Maremma region, it's closed but it opens for us. The clock here is seasonal, not hourly-stores and restaurants open and close arrhythmically, as if to defy the self-centered. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.