Lucca

A day trip to Lucca today. We needed to get out of Florence and have been to Lucca before and really enjoyed it.

A nice relaxing train trip followed by a stroll along the wall and around the old town of Lucca.

We then visited the Basilica of St Frediano (with totally intact relict!) went out for lunch and found a mineral shop where we bought 2 orbs.

Back to Florence for another apartment dinner.

Averaging 13,000 steps a day which doesn’t seem much after 30,000 but I will take it with my ankle.






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  1. AlpalSeptember 15, 2019 at 12:00 AM

    Love that tree sculpture! Take it easy on that ankle xx

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  2. Bruce - fellow hikeaholicSeptember 15, 2019 at 3:19 AM

    Ahh, the memories. Loving the blog, but not happy to read of the ankle injury, It's just so easy to do and as proven, it can happen when you least expect it. To take the positive, at least you got a decent bit of walking done and nothing's broken....nice! Also means, you have to visit more cafe's in the name of resting your foot. :) Cheers to you both, Bruce N.

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