2006 ITALY TRIP

Ciao!

Its a beautiful day in the Tuscany Hills and we are leaving today for Cinque Terre on the coast for two nights.

We drove to Lucca on Tuesday and walked inside this walled city of shops, ristorantes and homes. Shops open early and close right at 1 oclock. Then everyone goes upstairs to their homes to eat lunch and rest for 3 to 4 hours. Shops open up again around 4 oclock. We took this time to drive to Pisa, and had to park outside of the Piazza. Lots of tourist go here so be sure to park a distance away and just walk and walk past all the street vendors that sell everything related to the Tower! It was nice inside the piazza and we took lots of pictures of the leaning tower of pisa. We were laughing at all the people that pretend to hold up the tower while friends took their pictures.

Thursday, June 7th we drove into Florence. This is an amazing city, so cool and very old world. We took a tour inside the Uffuzi museum and walked over the Ponte Vechhio bridge then walked down Florences many narrow streets of shops, etc. There is so much to see and do here we only had a day and it was worth it.

Off to the coast we put our feet in the water in the Mediterranian sea in Viaraggio. The sand was soft and fine and the water warm. Very nice weather this time of year, not real hot yet and not a lot of tourist.

Gotta go and so much to tell, but Id rather be out by the pool for a bit before we leave!

We are not having luck with downloading photos and Lucia has an older computer with no usb port. Sorry...

Take care and chat with you soon.
Colleen