Villa La Principessa Lucca
Via Nuova per Pisa 1616 Lucca, Tuscany, 55050, Italy
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Quiet November in Lucca
... us for a Prosecco…
07/11/11 Monday – 14/11/11 Monday (Quiet week in town)
Not too much to write about this week…we have had so many things happening over the last month and a bit, that we are quite happy to be doing 'niente dolce', ‘sweet nothing’ !!! (as Paul would say).
We have been spending the days walking the wall in the mornings (Mary) ….again in the afternoon (together) and again after the suns gone down ...
Back to Lucca for a breather!!!
... and talked heaps more before all going to bed.
23/09/11 Friday
Today was very similar to yesterday … although we did decide to have a walk around the Wall as it was just about the
first time that the McK’s had walked the wall this time round. (no, mikes, we all walked around one morning before the cruise...now, i wonder where you were??!! :)) we also decided that we wouldn’t ...
A walk in Pisa
On the third day of the Cruise we arrived at our first stop, Livorno in Italy, close to Pisa.
Deciding that we'd avoid the guided tours and instead use local transportation to visit Pisa for a few hours, we took a buss to Livorno train station and purchased a return ticket to Pisa. The whole trip was quite short and only getting out somewhat late kept us from spending more than the few hours we had before ...
Arena, Heatwave, travels
... our way to the hop on hop off bus to have a quick 50 minute tour of Verona before our train was due to go at 11.09. We left our stuff at the hotel and had an eventful trip around the city. I love these tours when you don’t have enough time to get into anything. Anyway, we returned in time to check out and get to our train on time.
We decided to use the fact that we were in Verona to keep on going north to ‘Rovereto’ in the mountains to check out ...
Lucca
... s protective branches, close my eyes, and listen to it several times. Now, it will always bring me back. It should have been something by Puccini really, as he was born here. Oh well! He'll get used at some point, I'm sure. The Guigini Tower is really funky. From the wall of the town, it seems that a veritable forest is growing from it's rooftop. Worthy of investigation I feel. The only trouble with towers, is that you have to climb the stairs to the top. Should ...



