Relais Victoria San Macario in Monte
Via delle Gavine 3104/b San Macario in Monte, Province of 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
... boys were welcomed over the public address and had a parade with other youth teams on the field at half time.
After the match the boys played some touch on the field. We then headed off to our hotel in Montecini. A very nice town with narrow streets and typical Tuscan architecture.
The boys had some free time after supper to walk around the town and explore.
Tomorrow we are off to ...
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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Round as a Pizza
... market and of course the famous Piazza where the pigeons clamber all over tourists for bread crumbs. The Duke’s Palace was extraordinary and the paintings on the walls and ceilings of almost every room rivaled those of any of the other palace we have visited on our trip.
After Milan and Venice, we ventured to the quieter and more relaxed town of Modena. Famous for Sweet Balsamic Vinegar, Parmigiano-Reggiano (known better as Parmesan cheese) ...


