Susannah got up early on our last day to go for run along the walls in Lucca – turns out the bicycles are far less prevalent in the early morning but many locals are out on foot.  What a comfortable city this is – we all felt so welcome here!

Sadly, the rest of the day was dedicated to travel – train, bus, bus, plane, bus, plane, bus, car to be exact – but that gave us lots of time to think about our many memories from this Italian adventure.  We even caught one last glimpse of the leaning tower in Pisa from the air.

A big thank you – “grazie mille”, as we’ve learned to say – to David Charnes of Charnes Tours for handling the lodging and luggage transfer logistics in the Cinque Terre region and for providing wonderfully detailed route maps for our daily hikes.  Our vacation would not have been the same without you!