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Saturday 4 June Moving towards Firenze with a stop for two nights in this spa town. A ball of string town. Surprisingly interesting. Many grand hotels; a total of 200+ hotels in all. Hotels and spas. The reason to come … Continue reading →

Friday June 3 rain forecasted, only a small amount arrived. Possibly but only possibly substituted gorgonzola. Laundry day. Mop up day for items missed in town. QB with italiano coccolare posti Afternoon QB bruschetta ordered with gorgonzola. No blue veins, … Continue reading →

Thursday 2 June Rain forecasted, delivered intermittently, but heavy at times. Both the lemon and the chocolate versions of this rice based torta. The filing makes an excellent gluten free snack. Tuscan bread soup, perfect with some extra olive oil, … Continue reading →

June 1 Wednesday Rain forecasted delivered. Lucca wall from last evening. Parmigiana at $8 per pound at the supermarket. A local pastry: bucellato is pictured. Has Bobby made one? Now on QB list. A favorite confirmation gift as well as … Continue reading →

May 31 Rain promised. Occasionally delivered in small amounts. Useless pin and chip cards. We have several. None work on the train system. None. No trouble with the wireless credit card. Have not seen apple or Android pay. A day … Continue reading →

May 30 Rain promised, not delivered QB in fine American regalia. Walked around the fine wide wall, about 3 miles around. saint martins cathedral lucca, nicely decorated 11 th century forward. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucca_Cathedral Dinner: branzini        In Album Lucca 2 Check … Continue reading →

May 29 Rain, glorious rain promised but hardly delivered. Later a bit of thunder and cloudbursts. Luccahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucca Ancient and medieval with a tortured as well as a cultural past. Church san Michele in Foro, 11-12 century with many renovations over … Continue reading →

May 28 Another perfect day. The great art gallery, uffizi, earlier the admin offices well explained in link. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uffizi Enormous. Hundreds of Roman statues, endless Italian paintings, overwhelming in scope. We spent 2.5 hours and had to rush through done … Continue reading →

May 27 Sleeping late was a necessity. Then where to start and even harder where to stop. Our usual city wandering with each twist and turn finding beauty, history and interest. We were here 40+ years ago. Camping. A very … Continue reading →

May 25-26Warm The adventure begins. First stop: Florence aka Firenze – and the lathe sinkhole Florence Italyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence SFO to Heathrow and then Gatwick to Florence. Gatwick is a dump, especially before security. We are staying right along the Arno, the … Continue reading →