Lucca is a charming little walled city near Florence. Everyone rides bikes there - even the cute, little older ladies. Thanks to Rick Steves I was able to find the entrance into town through the wall.
I wandered through town on a Sunday when everything was closed and found a tower to climb...
While I was up there I wanted to call home and tell them I climbed a tower and was looking over the orange rooftops of a walled city, but it was three in the morning at home...(Actually, I did call Crystal - sorry, Honey!) Instead, I took a self-portrait in the wind. I was there! Really!!!
After the tower, I found a botanical garden at the edge of town! I thought I was in a dream...I spent hours walking through the garden in my heels. (Ah, Italia - mi e' piaciuto)...
I sat under a two hundred year old Magnolia tree and, again, I thought I was in a dream...
Che fantastica! C'era una Luccan tortuga nel giardino...
Meeting the owner of this Pizzeria in Sorrento was one of the highlights of traveling with my sisters. La Signora Anna Maria is an indescribably passionate, colorful and hardworking Neopolitan woman. We will never forget her and her amazingly strong hugs. Each time we went there (almost every day of our visit) she treated us with Prosecco and antipasti, fantastic Neopolitan Pizza for a good value and sent us home with bags of homemade Biscotti. Buonissimo!!!
She called herself our fourth sister - Le Quattro Sorelle - and filled us with joy!!!
