Up this morning. What a great nights sleep. The sound of the sea through our window. We head down the 139 steps for coffee on the Piazza. Looking out to water. Saying our goodbyes to a lovely place. Back up for bags. Bring them down. Lets make a plan. Maid calls, you have forgotten a tshirt. Rob back up and down. To start his day he had to walk 556 steps. Is the Tshirt patagonia. consider it yours.
Early but Foccacia books and smells great.
Bye Cinque Terre off to Pisa to pick up the car.
Train transer wen smooth. We are getting quie good at this traveling thing.
Car is small but we stuff our bags in and are off for Montecatini.
We will hit Pisa on the way home. Rain Rain Rain.
Wait Lucca the three walled city. We have been told it is a must do. We walk the city. Should we rent bikes. Lets grab a bite. To much rain. no biking the wal. We need our hotel.
No problem finding our next stop. But no map to te hotel. Where are we? Where is our hotel? No one speaks english in this little village. Rob makes a call. While the girls, pick up wine, salami, cheese, bread and olives. nice afternoon snack if we can find our hotel.
Alexandro on the line with Rob. "We are out, where are you? We will come get you, no problemo." Fiat shows up and he runs across the parking lot to greet us. European hugs and kisses and we jump in our car to follow him. A quick game of follow the leader and we are at the hotel. A little scary, but Haas is quite the driver in Italy. Perfecto.
Alex gives us the rundown on the area. Anything and everything we could want to do, he is giving us the info..... hot springs, wine country, towns, villages, views, spas, anything we can imagine. We are going to need more time.
Wine and snacks in the Sogards room and we are get ready to go out for dinner. Wait Alex's brother arrives at hotel. Mossimo. Fusion Jazz Musician. Tells us of his american travels 20 years ago with in Michigan "with chicks and hot tubs and Gibson Guitar". Please will you play for us?
Off to Grand Buffet for dinner. This place is fantastic. Lots of bling and velvet. Stairs up to who knows what. An actual Antipasto Buffet laid out in shells. Unbelievable. Recommended by Alex. Perfect. Waitress as nice as your mother, very little english, but keeps trying to get our food ordered. Fabulous. We walk home in the rain. Exhausted from Trip and travel. Home to bed for a fresh start tomorrow.
Wait Alex greats us as we walk in "Our cousin is here from Argentina, we have never met, join us in the kitchen". How can we resist. Grappa, Sambucca, Bongos and guitar playing for the next 90 minutes. Not to mention the video of Alex's trip to Utah.
Mossimo is great and entertaining. La Famia and we are finally off to bed. Great night. Thanks Tony Caputo for the recommendation. We couldn't ask for more.
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