One Pesky Pigeon

Saturday. We are up early because the weekly market is in town. We dress and head to the sala for our breakfast and....OMG! We are the first to arrive! Well, any of you that know Jim know we are never the first to arrive at anything in the morning. This trip has been full of first! The poor woman didn't know why we were so please with ourselves! We walked to the Porta Elisa. Lucca has a huge weekly market. It is mostly clothes, shoes, household supplies, lots of underwear-both men's and women's (seems an odd thing, but there are lots of venders selling underwear...), toys, fruits and vegetables, and plants, flowers, sewing supplies and food. We purchased two porchetta sandwiches and pick up a local bottle of wine and have a beautiful picnic on the wall looking out on to the grass expanse surrounding the walled portion of the city. Except for one pesky pigeon it was peaceful and serene. We come back to the room for a short rest before our planned bike ride along the wall...however, plans change and we end up resting for the whole afternoon. We were a bit early for our dinner reservations so we wandered around to try and find the anfiteatro...one should not be able to miss it and yet for two days of exploring the city and we still had not seen it. Well it turns out one of the four, yes four, huge, yes huge, arched entrances was right outside the restaurant where we were going to eat! One of the others we walked by every time we go to our hotel....hmmm maybe we have been having a little too much wine! Dinner is amazing, again, and we finish the evening with window shopping and a gelato. Tonight mine was fig!