Day 13 - Lucca and Florence, again!

Jackie and I ventured back to Firenze for day 2.  We had to pick up her sandals and there were a few more things she wanted to see.  Don, Nikki and Lois stayed in Lucca.  We started our day in Florence at the Boboli gardens – it was nice to see but didn’t spend a whole lot of time there.  We walked onto the shoe cobbler and picked up her sandals, grabbed some lunch, did some window shopping and then back on the 1:30pm train to Lucca. 

As the temperature in Florence was extremely HOT, we were looking forward to an air-conditioned train…not to be.  We sat in the train and were sweating like pigs.  Little by little people were leaving our car.  Jackie decided to get up and walk down other cars.  It seems our car was the only one without air conditioning – stupid Americans!  We ripped our legs from the leather seats and moved down to a different car for our remaining trip to Lucca.  After 1 hour and 40 minutes  we arrived in Lucca (we obviously were on the train that stopped at every city in between Florence and Lucca). 

In the meantime, Don had found the best pizza for lunch that he had EVER HAD!  We found a café in St. Michele and had glasses of vino Blanco, a cheese and prosciutto plate and gelato for Nikki…all is good!  Dinner was at Ostaria Via S. Giorgio – so good!  Don had a tomato and bread soup, I had fresh seabass (which is unusual to find good fish in Lucca). Good food, good wine…mamma mia!

Boboli Gardens

Palazzo Pitti

Jackie's sandals

at dinner

streets of Lucca