Bagni di Lucca and Beyond Blog
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My blog covers all my travels, mostly on Italy. I am Australian and I usually spend 6 months each year in Italy. Travel has been a bit restricted over the past year, but I have talked about lockdown, my Tuscan garden and the occasional trip I have managed for fit in. There will be lots more travel,stories soon.
Bagni di Lucca and Beyond Blog
19h ago
On our visit to Soave, a delightful small town in the Veneto region of Italy, we discovered a town scattered with colourful animals. It was a miserable, cold, rainy, windy day, but the animals seemed cheerful enough. Hot pink snails were the first to appear near the Porta Verona, one of the entrances to the ..read more
Bagni di Lucca and Beyond Blog
1w ago
Right now is the best time to visit Villa Bardini and its gorgeous gardens. The wisteria is in full bloom. I visited yesterday and forgot my camera! Fortunately, by absolute coincidence, I ran into a friend, Victoria De Maio. She very kindly shared her photos with me so that I can share them too. The Bardini ..read more
Bagni di Lucca and Beyond Blog
1w ago
The Jardin Majorelle in Marrakech is a 1 hectare botanical and artist’s landscape garden. It was created in 1923 by the French Orientalist artist Jacques Majorelle. The Cubist Villa was designed by French architect Paul Sinoir in the 1930s. The artist and his wife lived there from 1923 until the 1950s. Yves Saint-Laurent and Pierre Berge ..read more
Bagni di Lucca and Beyond Blog
1w ago
Marrakech is a sprawling, messy, chaotic place to be. It is full of colour in the markets and tucked away behind walls in stunning riads and gardens. The souks are a tangle of covered streets overflowing with things to buy and people wanting to sell them to you. All of the traders we met were ..read more
Bagni di Lucca and Beyond Blog
2w ago
Today as we were walking down the narrow lane way that leads from Riad Mena towards the centre, a traffic incident happened before our eyes. A TukTuk came towards us and blocked a fair bit of the laneway. Coming the other way there appeared several forms of transport and nobody was prepared to give an ..read more
Bagni di Lucca and Beyond Blog
3w ago
We are in Marrakech. We flew out of Milan. On the way up to Milan airport in the train we had all kinds of weather. It rained heavily on the way from Florence, then we had blue sky. From Milano Centrale to the airport huge white clouds appeared and made a stunning backdrop to the ..read more
Bagni di Lucca and Beyond Blog
3w ago
After our recent visit to the hot springs in Saturnia (Saturnia hot springs ) we stopped at Sovana, a charming tiny town in southern Tuscany. It is listed as one of the “prettiest towns in Italy” and it llives up to the title. It was almost abandoned at one point, possibly because of its position ..read more
Bagni di Lucca and Beyond Blog
1M ago
It is now officially spring in Italy. My garden has been looking like spring for a while. It was a mild winter this year and the plants are further advanced than usual. A lot of my gorgeous daffodils are almost finished, but there are a few still popping up. Almost all of my peonies have ..read more
Bagni di Lucca and Beyond Blog
1M ago
Prato is on the train line from Lucca to Florence, making it easy for me to visit. I get off the train at Porta al Serraglio, which takes me directly to the old part of Prato. I was surprised to learn that it is the second largest city in Tuscany, after Florence, with around 195,213 residents ..read more
Bagni di Lucca and Beyond Blog
1M ago
Our apartment in Bagni di Lucca is a 30 minute drive from lovely Lucca. It is a beautiful town, small enough to be easy to navigate and big enough to have lots of points of interest. Its best known attraction is the 4.2 kilometre wall surrounding the town. It is a great place to walk ..read more