Locanda Podere il Riposo Camaiore
Via Gello, 41 Camaiore, Tuscany, 55041, 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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When in Rome, Venice, Florence, etc...
Heading back to Italy, where I first really fell in love with travel, was something I'd been looking forward to for a long time. I was a little nervous, too, because maybe I'd talked it up too much to Sam.
Nope. Still love it. And it taught Sam a few things too, most importantly that wine by the carafe is a wonderful thing. Oh yeah, and then there's the food...
We had 2 weeks of le dolce vita, kicking off in the Eternal City. Rome's chaos called to us after a catch ...
382 steps up - worth the climb?
Corniglia might be the least visited of the Cinque Terre, simply because it requires an investment in effort to get there, and it is away from the sea.
When you arrive by train (and it has to be the best piece of seaside to be used solely for a train station) all you can see if the back edge of the town clinging to the steep hillside above.
But take the effort to climb up and you get to see something a little different to the other Cinque Terre towns. ...

