Pisa and Lucca
We went to see Pisa and Lucca and I found myself resonating to Lucca. I love the quaintness of the town, surrounded by walls. The town appeared as a fortress. Yet, the connectedness of the town in terms of its small size, its architecture, and its pathways that wind themselves throughout the buildings makes Lucca wonderful. The frustrating thing – from an ugly American point of view — is that unless you speak Italian, you find yourself looking at statues and paintings with absolutely no clue who they are, what they represent, and how they obviously are relevant. The people who do speak English…fairly fluently….are the immigrant attempting to sell their wares as you enter cities and other tourist places of interest. Need a Gucci purse or a Rolex watch? No problem…
I had a few fun conversations with some of the immigrant vendors who are quite nice…Had to buy an umbrella because it rained off and on yesterday and we had fun negotiating a price — could have payed 5 Euros before the rain…and ended up paying 8 during…oh well, he wanted 10 so it was fun nontheless…I am still messing around with the Atrix in terms of posting pictures so eventually I will post them. Like I said, however, there won’t be a whole lot of description…
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