Lucca-t these photos!  Like, Look at these photos- they were taken (mostly) in Lucca!

I’m falling behind, as I do, but we’re just finishing breakfast so I figured I’d post some photos (out of order, alas).  Yesterday we left La Spezia and drove to Florence, stopping in Lucxca.  We didn’t intend to stay long, just enough to get lunch, but it ended up being a cool city.  We were remarking on how it seemed like a real city and how there was almost no tourist presence, which was odd.  Then we realized we just entered town from the non-tourist side- the closer we got to the center, the more gelaterias and tschotchkerias there were until it was a veritable Ocean City.  No, that’s rude.  It was nothing like Ocean City.

One unexpected stop was a Comics Museum, where we saw an exhibition on WW1 comics as well as a “Myth of the West” exhibit on Western comic art in Italy.  AND there was Spiderman on the outside.  Also had the best gelato of the trip from the coolest looking place- all the gelato was stored in shiny copper pots.  Very pretty.

We got into Florence, dropped off our “car”, and headed to our B&B, ehich was great.  Picnic dinner at some park, beer with Dr. Zigler who’s in Florence in his official capacity, and that’s the ballgame!