Alle Camelie Lucca
Via della Pieve, 186 Lucca, Tuscany, 55065, Italy
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Florence to Lucca
... didn't take long did it! Gaffer tape around loose mirror and loose gearknob then off again...
...it only took us about 3km to get hopelessly lost. 30 minutes and lots of stressing later we gave up, fired up google maps very expensively on the iphone and managed to find the route again. Believe me you'd never do it from the map and some of the roads were borderline farm tracks until ...
Day 4 - Rome - Pisa - Montecatini
Today we had a long drive from Rome to Pisa. We took the coastal road which allowed us to have some beautiful views of the Mediteranian Sea.
The trip took about 4 and a half hours. We arrived in Pisa at 1pm. The boys had some free time to have lunch and to view the leaning tower.
We headed off after that to a village near Montecini to watch a professional rugby match between Rovigo and ...
A drive in the Tuscan countryside
Poppiano is a small community close to our villa.
There is a very large castle, where people live.
It is a wine making community. There are solar panels on the hillside and the wine making vats are very well hidden so as to not disrupt the beautiful landscape.
We went into Empoli for gelatto and cookies from a very nice bakery.
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Well that's smaller than I thought it would be...
The drive to Pisa was fine but we got lost trying to find the parking area to catch the shuttle to the site. In the end, we just drove to the site and got a parking spot within a block of the Field of Miracles. Note to self ...this is the off season... We CAN get parking spots.
After the prerequisite pictures of Sean "holding the tower", we explored the site. Nice to see some things with the marble still on it after being in ...
Getting close to Christmas
... with us trying to get the Christmas DVD’s completed as soon as possible so we can post them. Apart from trying to condense nearly 4 hours of recording, we also have been trying to make it interesting. We keep on thinking of Glenn and the great job he does on all his DVDs, but it is so hard…we never know what to keep and what not to keep…something that we like might be dead boring to someone else. Oh well, we’ve tried our hardest.
The ...


