Today was a leisure day so the Hiltons decide to go into the town of Montecatini for morning tea, which consists of espresso, cappuccino & beautiful cakes.. OMG I'm in heaven , you all know that I love cakes......it's very unusual drinking coffee standing up here in italy as in Australia we are so not used to it ....the coffee is good really good but I suppose any great coffee would taste fabulous after 3 weeks of none at all( I remember some of our friends t...

We drive for over 1 hour & we arrive at Pisa where thee are thousands of tourists & we are welcomed to 37 degree heat.....The leaning tower of Pisa is such a sight in life , amazing at the lean that it actually has, it's a stunning building really really pretty. Flea markets line the sidewalks of the tower where you can buy anything from leather handbags to leaning nip glasses , it's so funny... We walk over to the ticket office pay our 60 euros for the 4...

Today is a relaxing day at the Tuscan villa just lounging by the pool having a few relaxing drinks & swimming with the boys....it's hot outside actually we have been blessed with the weather the whole holiday it has been hot everyday..... It's so nice to have some down time as the days are long as we try to fit as much into our day that we can...we are so excited tonight as we have a Italian chef coming in tonight to prepare us an Italian feast.... They are ...

Lucca - we park our cars at the train station walk to meet our guide & start walking to pick up our bicycles as today we are doing a 3 hour bike tour, sounds funny I know but the boys are so excited & so are we, it's a warm day but Lucca is surrounded by massive walls & is 4.2 kms in length , we start riding & singing ( riding along on a push bike honey ) etc etc......our guide today is Wanda but pronounced Valda she speaks great English & she...

Well we wake early to get into the cars to get to the local train station . We got lost a few times so we ask for directions, when we find the station we need to pay at a parking meter we pay 8 euros for 8 hours , for some reason our ticket only goes till 1.30 pm ( whom knows why) so we pay another 2 euro to take us to 10 hours but that ticket only takes us to 1.30 pm,... Apparently they check the tickets daily in this town so we leave the others at the train sta...