driving outside Florence
city wall park in Lucca
docks at Genoa
Owen watching the big kids
finally coming down the "bouncy thing"Hot gluten-free doughnuts for breakfast again! We will certainly do well to get back to a better diet at home. Owen was a bit sad to leave "my farm," but he is glad to be headed home as are Abram and I. We drove through a rainy Tuscany and stopped in Lucca for a wet (but otherwise pleasant) walk around the city walls which are now a raised park, lined with trees. We had a bit of lunch and headed on toward Genoa where we found our least favorite city in Italy. It is full of traffic, monstrously expensive (35 Euros each for tickets to the aquarium - we didn't visit - just for reference, none of our museum visits cost a total of 35 Euros, a sum roughly equal to $55). Owen found a place to play in a huge pipe and really liked the "bouncy thing" we payed 3 Euros for 20 minutes to use; it took him 10 minutes to decide to get all the way up the steps, and five more to go down the slide the first time; then he was all about it! We walked around the harbor area looking for something to eat, but of course, no one was open despite the crowds swarming around - no doubt very hungry crowds who would have payed for food. So, hungry, we headed on toward our hotel a bit north of the city. It was about 10 km off the autostrada down windy roads in a holler the likes of which I have often seen in east Tennessee. It was beautiful. After checking in and being turned away from one pizzeria because we didn't have reservations, we had a huge steak at the only other act in town and turned in.
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