Lucca, Italy

Lucca revisited

Advantages: Cycling around the city walls
Disadvantages: Parking

Ah, holiday memories. We stayed just outside Lucca in a lovely converted farmhouse with a beautiful pool surrounded by olive and oleader trees and stunning views of the mountains. Lucca itself has the beautiful circular Piazza Anfiteatro at its centre, where 4 or 5 storey terracota and yellow painted buildings curve around enclosing you in another world. Cafe tables around the edge let you sit and watch the world go by. The whole city is surrounded by a huge, very wide 16 th century city wall. We hired bicycles and cycled around the tree-lined pathway that runs along the top. From here you can catch glimpses of the narrow little streets within where much of it is pedestrianised, apart from the obligatory mad moped riders! Lucca also has a tower with a large tree growing from the top and another even taller tower next ...

friedagaric 17.08.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Lucca (Italy)

HOME COMFORTS or NOT IN LUCCA

Advantages: Cheap and Location
Disadvantages: Not Onsuite and no breakfast

have use of the Kitchen, thats the photo of the Stone Sink, yes it is there. We did find this OK, as one of us would nip to the nearby bakers for all those Italian Pastries and bread for breakfast washed down with our own TEA and Coffee. It was a good way of meeting the other clients. The location being inside the walls is very good as Lucca is not a very large place and fairly pedestrian friendly. There is that lovely Tower to climb, the one we have all seen in the Photos with about 4 trees growing out of the top. A lovely arena type place, if you watched Franco,s Italy series on BBC the arena where the Lady sang some Puccini, after all this is where he came from. There is a small Puccini Museme very close to the Hotel. Eating out is very good but be careful if they offer you VEGTABLES OF LUCCA, we thought that ...

poshtroika 10.08.2007 · Read full review
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A Day In Capri Italy

Advantages: Lots to see and do
Disadvantages: not enough time

paying Ciao pronounced Chow Hello Arriverderci Aree'veh'dair'chee Goodbye This got a laugh and two very large glasses of chilled white wine (dry and refreshing). The waiter also brought a large bowl of black olives, a bowl of green olives and a bowl of small salted biscuit's (a bit like pretzels) . This cost about £12.00 and even though its pricey it was worth it. We sat for half an hour and relaxed. Capri's little Piazzetta is one of the best known squares in Italy and is a great place to sit and relax and do a bit of people watching. ~ Parco Augosto-The Gardens Of the Emperor Augustus ~ The garden's of the Emperor ...

debmercury 18.03.2008 (14.07.2009) · Read full review
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Review of Capri (Italy)