Day 35: Towards a Tuscan Sun

Today we make our way to Lucca in the rolling hills of Tuscany. It started at about 6.15 when we departed the ship for our 10.30 train departure. We don't like to be late! There are 6 of us travelling by train and like a well oiled machine we made it on and off the trains with luggage intact. We transferred at Pisa where we decided to have some lunch, it was declared worst lunch ever and a complete waste of money.

An Aside:

Due to the fact that I have suffered a lot of distractions, and my blog is delayed by approx 7 days, I am currently sitting in the stairwell of the train to Roma watching our luggage.

Happy( not) because I paid for a seat but there is no luggage room.  End of aside.

Back to the stazione ( station) in Italian and it's on the regional train to Lucca ( you will notice that I will be dropping in more italian words now it is becoming secondi naturo to me). We arrived at the station with all our bags and it was hire car time. Driving on the wrong side of the road did not come quite as naturali to me as my grasp of the Italian language. Lucky I had a great co pilot, who by the way wasn't Sandy( who was sitting behind me mumbling Jesus occasionally, she still hasn't gotten over her trip to the Vatican) and was very gentle in telling me to move over a little, and you do need to be on the other side. We arrived at the Villa safely at about 5 pm, a long day.