Al Tondone Lucca

... ill once we made it to the station in Pisa. Not so fun.

Still, ok – we’re now in Pisa, right?, and so we should make the best of it. After getting a better map from the local tourist office, we walked from the Pisa train station to the Fiume Arno River (the same river that flows through Florence). During our walk, we saw this unique, teeny-tiny church named Santa Maria della Spina, which hung right on the edge of ...

partie tot ce matin pour faire les 4.5 heures de train entre milan et pise, nous avons traverser plusieurs petit tunel. le paysage de la toscanne est beaucoup moins plat que ce que nous avons vue du nord-est de l'italie.

une fois nos bagage depose a l'auberge, on est partie vers la fameuse tour de pise. effectivemnt, elle ...

... kitchen.I went down later that eveing to chat to the people staying there and marvel at the double bed inthe kitchen.

Really quiet in the off saeason with a lot of places noteven bothering to open or open reduced hours.

Was sitting outside the only bar in RioMaggore and Jess who I shared a dorm room with in Salzburg walked past. Turns out she's staying in the same dodgy room as me again!

Was lucky there was a bunch of good people ...

We are finally home and it is actually Nov. 20th. We finally got in last night around midnight and could not download anything for the last several days because WiFi is too advanced for the small town we were in. It was the most relaxing of all the ...

Kim had taken her grandma to Lucca last November and had fallen in love with the place.

We found a park not far from the city walls and then headed in for a look. We came across a chocolate festival in one of the piazzas and sampled a few beforw buying a hot cocolate drink...literally hot chocolate in a cup. It made me feel a bit sick.

Walking Lucca is like a big ...

... an exciting time. I even had a chance to truly see the team rivalry when a Napoli fan crossed over into our section…brutal! I was even pushed in attempts to get this guy out of the stadium.

I visited a quality control center in nearby Prato. I was exposed to a number of tests performed on products before they were put onto the market.

I’ll update you soon,

Siara

... walked through to get to the marina where we had lunch at a ristorante while we watched a fisherman mending his nets. The marina is overlooked by a castle and there are many lemon groves on the hillsides. This is where limoncello is made and was popular in the shops. After lunch we decided to go for a walk along one of the tracks that overlooks the village, but it got too steep before we got a very good view. We caught the train to Corniglia where we ...

... with an attentive gaze, appreciative and cognizant of how fortunate we have been to experience more of what the world has to offer and to understand how life plays out in another corner of the world. And then it hit us....lunch time! And what better place to dine than the oldest pizzeria in Lucca, "Pizza Da Felice". It's found on a cross-street ...

... of biking (sorry mom no helmets were available...I really begged for one but no such luck!) and taking pictures we ditched the bikes. Only two casulties occured: Erika ran into an old lady and Ashley fell off her bike...otherwise it was happy sailing. After ditching the bikes we looked through an open market then ate a delicious lunch. YUM. I had a calzone the size of my head! Lucca was great but we were all exhausted and jumped back on the train to Torino. Ciao Lucca. Until next time.

... The first floor is meat, cheese, bread, pasta, and other non-produce products. Upstairs are the fruits and green-goods. Great stuff. The pictures that I have added include an overview of one corner of the store: one of the meat vendors one of the salami / cheese / bread vendors a close-up of some wild boar and rabbit.