Travels in Italy 2019

After Montalcino, I drove to Lucca. It was a decent drive of 2.5 hours and 185km, and mostly scenic. I spent 5 nights in Lucca from November 27 through December 1, 2019. As I arrived, city crews were beginning to hang the Christmas lights, which were a bit different: words to carols. Christmas lights in Lucca Lucca is a walled city, and parking in the city center is by permit only, so I parked inside the walls (barely), but on the periphery and about a 20 minute walk from the Airbnb I stayed at. This Airbnb was one of the few where a person actually met me to show me the apartment. It was quite nice with a living room/kitchen, bedroom, nice bath with washer/dryer combo, and a family room! Airbnb in Lucca It was quiet, and only a couple blocks from the main shopping street, next to a nice piazza with a church (of course) and a couple of caffès, one was modern and the other classic. I had my usual "una brioche e un espresso" (o force due--or maybe two) at the C