city of lucca

It was a morning of people rolling out of bed slowly one at a time. Around 12:30, Lucca was graced with our presence. We all split up into a little groups and it was naoh, Daniel and I today. We wandered through looking for the flea market and all the churches that were open. At the foot of one of the churches was this absolutely fabulous book seller who had books from the 1800’s for only 1 and 2 euro. I found some letters addressed to Giuseppe Spadoni, circa 1908-1932. The paper is so old that it almost falls apart when you touch it. It was a rush to find something so personal and so fragile in such great shape for me to have!! The three of us found a restaurant right by the church that had excellent pizza for 4 euro each. I was FULL. It was getting close to our scheduled meet up time back at the car so we started heading towards the wall that encompasses the whole city (we parked just on the outside of the wall). There were steps the went to the top of the wall and you could walk around the entire city up there. We just walked a partial way and ran into everyone relaxing on a bench atop the wall. After congregating, it was back to the villa for dinner, wine and dancing. Both nights so far have gotten pretty rowdy and I only see it getting crazier. It’s a day off tomorrow so I’m thinking there will be lots of hangovers and laying around..

-L dawg