We’re heading home tomorrow so we are already packing up.
It’s been a good trip. The house is in reasonable shape. We had a good meeting with the geometra. We’ve tidied up the front garden to show the locals we’re caring for the place. We also placed a pot strategically to prevent people parking with their tyres on our grass.
We think it has been a good thing to show our neighbours that we haven’t bought the place just for summer trips. We’ve even used our improving Italian language skills to communicate with Laura and also Enrico and Paula to an extent.
There’s been a bit of a faff around the return trip as the Omicron variant of COVID-19 has hit while we’ve been here. As a result, we’ve had to cancel the lateral flow tests we’d already bought and schedule day 2 PCR tests instead.
This afternoon we went in to Lucca for a bit of Christmas shopping and a walk round the walls. We also went along to a bar where a bunch of English speeking expats meet for a drink on Monday afternoons. We finished the evening off in a rather odd restaurant galled Ubaldos that was suggested by one of the guys we met there.
Tomorrow we will close up the house, have lunch at La Cecca and head to Pisa to catch our flight home.