The weekend went by…my last in Lucca. On Sunday I roused myself enough to ride around the wall. In deference to the heat I went around twice, stopped and had a read then did another lap so 3 in all but a bit lazily. I’m getting the most out of the bike as I leave it behind in but days now. Most of the time at home I’m either doing a bit of cleaning up / packing or writing up my Italian lessons so I can throw all paper away. I’ve also gone solo on the 2 beautiful bottles of wine from the Chianti trip back in April and have now polished them off.
I’ve also been fighting with the car hire people because there was $223 on my credit card from them, so I told them they had charged the wrong credit or (my greater concern) they had charged both Norjie and I. This went back and forward and they claimed not to know what I was talking about. I sent them emails and they sent back saying don’t know what you’re talking about. So today I sent them my credit card statement and said please explain this charge. So finally they get back to me…oh!! that’s a fine you got from the Lucca police. Here is the notice and we authorised your credit card!!! Fucking hell. So the notice says for driving in a restricted area within the walls..god knows but it was when I hired a car with Shamala and Alan. I remember having to go back inside the walls to pick something up before going to the doctor with Shamala….the buggers!! I’m furious on 2 counts…that they fined me in the first place and that the hire car company just blithely authorised my credit card. Anyway I’m taking deep breaths and letting another fucking stupid italian fine go into the depths where I put bad memories.
Today I went to a hairdresser recommended by an Australian friend from school and had my beach/ summer haircut. The Italians seem to be great hair cutters so I’m happy with it. I went and bought myself a purse to bring home and did some other random shopping about the place. Pottered at home as above and am soon going out to have a meal with my friend Anita from school.
Have been reading up on Trieste and I think that will be a really interesting port of call…looking forward to that.