This last week in Lucca has been amazingly busy. My friends from school last week are a very active lot and kindly keep including me in all their activities. Hence I have dined out every night this week. Last night we (3 Aussies, one HK and one of our lovely teachers) wined and dined until nearly 2am with a lot of hilarity. You can’t beat a group of (mainly) Aussies to turn the conversation to toilets/ bidets and the like…Some great stories across the table. The night before it was a great fish restaurant outside the walls with my friend from HK and 2 American woman…great food and fun too.
I’m having a fairly relaxing week otherwise. I’m going out for lunch most days to revisit my favourite places. I try and ride a bit each day to get the most out of my lovely bike…I’m going to miss it very much. I wander around and feel nostalgic about leaving this great town. I’ve also started tidying and packing up. I’m meeting with Cristina, my landlady this morning to do a bit of planning for my exit as she has someone coming in on same day.
Tomorrow night one of the Austn women who is a professional chef at home and living here for 6 months with her family, has asked the group (including the 2 American woman) to dinner…I suspect that will be a heavy night for my last night. I think she is insane to take on this task but it will be fun.
So the time is rapidly coming when I start moving again, with lots of company and diversity of travel for the next couple of months before I come home. Not sure how I’ll cope without Italy in my life!!