Friday 2nd May

After our big adventure yesterday we thought we might just explore some more of Lucca’s old town within the walls. We found a very trendy home ware shop and surprisingly a Chinese food restaurant which we marked on our map, so we could come back and enjoy another time. We also found a nice little Trattoria in the back streets and sat in the sun and enjoyed a scrumptious pizza for lunch.

The pizza’s here are bigger than a large pizza at home and you order one each! Now this might seem like a lot of pizza for one person, but the pizza crust is super crunchy thin and the toppings are always kept to a minimum so that you can flavor the delectable fresh vegetables and thinly sliced salami’s. No ham & pineapple or meat lover’s here!!! If you do try and ask for more variety of toppings on top, you end up with four different quarters, as they hate loading them together (how can you taste the flavors if it’s all mixed together?) Italian pizzas are to die for and we nearly always get through a whole one each!

In the evening we cooked our first meal on our custom made barbeque. It was a lovely mild night out on our terrace and it has been staying daylight here now till about 9:00pm. The barbe was a huge success, made even nicer to be eating the tasty kebabs outdoors. When the evening started to cool down we relaxed in front of the fire and read our novels. Estasi!! (Bliss).