La Gemma di Elena Bed and Breakfast Lucca
Via della Zecca 33 Lucca, Tuscany, 55100, 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 ...
Well that's smaller than I thought it would be...
... a week where all the marble was stolen and reused in other sites. Beautiful marble work!! Almost blinding for pictures.
Had a lovely lunch on a side street from the Field of Miracles.
Kids got to "shop" a bit at the market.
On the way back to the Villa we stopped in Empoli at the "Super Coop", a very big grocery store, to pick up a few things. I found "Made in Manitoba bread flour" and "Canadian Maple Syrup".
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School Day: Time for some homework
A rest day turned into a catch up day. Kids got to sleep in and relax in the morning and then catch up on some journaling. Rome was crazy busy and they needed time to take in what they had learned in Rome before we start the next leg of our journey in Tuscany.
Lots of naps today for David and I.
David took the kids out for a short drive around the countryside. They found a castle. They ended up in Empoli, the bigger centre in our area.
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An end to an Unbelievable year
... t have change out of 1000EU. Pity as it would be very special…
24/12/11 Saturday
Christmas eve…I can’t believe it is already here…
Mary came back from her walk drenched. Luckily she was wearing her very good rain jacket which kept her relatively dry…apart from her legs…
Mary spent most of the morning sending Christmas emails to everyone we knew…she is such a Christmas child…and I mean that in all ...


