No official miles walked (we start tomorrow), but 5 miles running. So,  speaking of running, running really is a great way to get an overview of a town. The outer walls of Lucca are just over 2.5 miles in circumference. We ran two laps this morning providing an excellent overview of the city within. Here’s part of my Strava post, and one of the runners I saw there!

(By the way, she had an excellent run today! )

We tracked our tourist miles inside the city and we were surprised that we’d covered over 10 miles, between yesterday and today. Not a bad “day off”!

I only snapped one tourist photo, as I’d hit my limit in Florence. Lucca is a very beautiful town and deserved more photo space,  but …

Okay, it’s a small world … With frequency, we’ll stay in a rental flat that is a restored centuries-old structure. Sometimes, these restorations are palacial; opulent. Sometimes, they’re just old and cramped. Our accomodations in Lucca are quite nice, but they didn’t manage to get the bathroom right.

Apparently here in Europe, they sell shower boxes for the size- challenged!  These showers can be 24″x24″, and sometimes smaller! Really, you cannot turn around in these units! Our shower here was probably 27″x27″, big enough to turn around in, but … don’t drop the soap! You won’t see it until you step out.  Here’s Diane modeling the shower:

Continuing our Small World, we found our next car! It will fit in our garage (for sure), and maybe even our backpack.  It’s a Renault Twizy car:

It’s electric, for those who wish to reduce fossil fuel, and has room for two, but not side-by-side (not for the romantics, here).

Enough for today. Tomorrow we hit the trail!