We spend our second week in Bagni di Lucca – about 30 minutes north of Lucca in Tuscany. There aren’t many tourists in this area and there are many beautiful rolling hills with villages on top. Also the food is insanely cheap.
We stayed in the same place as we did a few years ago – a little house with a small pool, lemon and olive trees. The hosts are excellent and live next door. There are turtles roaming all over the yard plus a super nice dog named Tessa. The host took us to one of the mountaintop villages for a tour and treated us to Prosecco and ice cream. It was a wondeful time as always!
Bagni di Lucca
Måns and his favorite coffee logo - Hausbrandt
Måns in the pool
Max in the pool
Our neighbor Tessa
Another neighbor who was eating tomatoes on our porch.
Beach at Viareggio
(mountains in background)
Beach at Viareggio
Lunch in Levigliani
Tour of old quicksilver mines (mercury)
The boys visit the Museum of Torture in Lucca
Lucca
Ice cream is needed after a hard day at the Torture Museum.
The hilltop village of Montefegatesi
Our host Giuseppe also makes amazing art from things he finds. Here are a few examples on display.
Whole family in Montefegatesi
Leo and Max
Montefegatesi
Dante wrote his Divine Comedy while in Tuscany. They say he stayed in Montefegatesi where he was inspired by levels marked on river canyons in the Orrido di Botri.
Just the appetizer
Måns