Casa di Puccini Lucca

What a full week! We are trying to plan trips, but there is just so much to do in Florence!

On Fridays we have to leave by 10:30 so the maid can properly clean everything, so we thought it would be an excellent opportunity to do some museum hopping. We started with the Accademia, which is conveniently on my walk home from the bus stop …

We woke up and went straight to visit Verdi's Villa near Busseto. It was this huge mansion that he build as a place to escape from all the people in the city. It was by the lake and back into the woods so there were a ton of mosquitoes and we were eaten alive (especially because I am allergic I had welts all over my body). So I had to go sit on the …

Up at 7.30pm. Slept well. Warm sunny morning. Good breakfast, off to lucca by train. Tickets from hotel. Lucca. Small walled city, very old. Lovely, with a lovely main entrance gate. Found Puccini's house MAGIC!!, Bought DVD - Tosca. Took pics inside house. Not strictly allowed, but no one about. Music played as one toured the house and lunched on …