Day 2: This is more like it....

Today was much better... We awoke at 11 am our time expecting to have missed breakfast by only about 2.5 hours, but to our delight when going downstairs we were greeted by our house mother who served us cheese, fruit, quiche, coffee, tea, biscotti, proscioutto and some type of Italian salami that was at least 95% fat. It was the best thing I ever put into my body. It was lightly raining, but alas we headed off to the old city of Lucca to sightsee. As you can see by the photos it is very, very old and extremely retro European, which was exactly what we wanted.

There were not many individual highlights to speak of, the whole day was spectacular. The wine was extraordinary, the people were very friendly (although nobody really speaks any useful english). We took about 50 photos of which I am uploading maybe 6 or 7.

Right now it is 7 pm and Ally is showering, we are preparing for our night out on the town. That will no doubt consist of a lot of wine drinking, a lot of eating unhealthy food and more wine drinking. I do not know when the bars/restaurants close here, but I'm pretty certain that we'll be there when that time arrives.

That's it for now. More to report on in the morning after our evening on the town. \

Lucca City Square (it's actually a circle, but I call it a square), I don't know the word for either circle or square in Italian.

Main street in Lucca, lots of shopping here, but not too touristy. I hate american tourists.

I don't know what this is.

A great little bar/cafe with a very old and short lady at the counter.

Ally drinking Vino

Another bar, more Vino

We must have gotten thirsty with all our walkiing...more Vino

That's it for now. I should have some great Euro-hangover photos at the next posting.

Arreviderci