Next episode now: The famous and much anticipated lunch was yesterday. I stayed home in the morning with the foot up in preparation for an afternoon of eating and drinking.
We got a taxi to this restaurant called Butterfly outside the walls and down along the river in the most beautiful garden setting, We sat outside for the next 4 hours and ate the most amazing degustation menu accompanied by wine. It was really very special.
I had a little wooden box that I found to put my leg up and I was in heaven!!
There isn’t too much more I can say about that. It is quite an achievement for us all to be there.
We got back to Lucca and I had a couple of hours rest before we met again for drinks. The Italians always give you food with your drinks so that was meal enough after lunch.
Over drinks I had a consultation with the dear and wonderful Dr Andrew who felt that my leg wasn’t good enough to stop antibiotics ( a bit red and a bit warm) so he wants me to stay on them for another course and then stop with leg up ++++.
I can’t tell you how good it is to have him helping me. He thinks the back is broken (of the infection) but I need to treat it with great respect he tells me!!!
They leave tomorrow (Tuesday) but he is very happy for me to text/ take photos etc if I need to. Your photos were fantastic Rose because he went through them and saw what it was like when I left hospital and saw that it isn’t quite back to that point after the flight etc.. So…enough!! Suffice to say having him here was so fortuitous and has given me confidence. I hope the Calamia crew are reading this (in fact I might copy them into the email in case) because they will be interested in the important part Andrew B is playing in my survival!!
This morning I went off to get coffee. Bought some reading glasses and wandered a bit before coming home to get the leg up again. Andrew then txted and suggested we go to this exhibition at the art gallery as Desiree and Gail were out shopping. So off we trotted forgetting of course (Rosa you will know the feeling) that it is Monday and it was closed. So we had a coffee and back I came to…you guessed it….put the leg up.
We are meeting again this evening for drinks and a meal.
The others, Ann and Simon, have to move out of their accommodation for the night tonight so they have farmed their kids out to someone else and they are coming to stay here for the night.
I’m using this time in Lucca to get the leg under control so I can manage the next phase of travelling around.
Thats it for now… more tomorrow.
