Can you believe this time last Friday I was getting ready to
leave for Italy! Time has gone by so fast!
So yesterday we traveled to a nearby town called Pietrasanta
where we visited their church. It was so beautiful. We had free time for lunch
and I loved getting to see another cute Tuscany town! I had a wonderful pizza
and some nutella gelato, which is definitely my favorite flavor! After lunch we
went to visit the marble quarries in Carrara. Let me just start off by saying
that the marble quarries did not sound too interesting to me but it actually
was. We all laughed because we all loved the fact that from our hotel in
Versilia you could see the sea and also “snow-capped” mountains. HAH we were SO
wrong! They were actually marble-capped mountains. We got the full run through of how marble is taken out of
the mountain. Carrara sells over 400 million tons of marble every year. 
Today was a fun day too. They chose the coolest places for
us to visit! We rode our bus to Viareggio and went to the place where the town
makes their famous floats for their Carnevale. The floats were HUGE. After that
tour we had the whole afternoon for free time in Viareggio. We decided to get
some lunch and we happened to pick the place that “claims” to be the first
place to make “Margherita pizza”. It was first made for the Queen Margherita
hence the name- They made a pizza of three colors-green white and red to mirror
the Italian flag-pretty cool huh?
We then decided to go to the beach. It was another rocky
shoreline. Today the waves were HUGE and the tide was too strong for us to swim
but it was still nice to spend some time there. Tomorrow we are going on a bike
ride to tour the towns of Tonfano and Forte dei Marmi! Until Then… Ciao!!!!
P.S. there has been the sweetest kitty outside our hotel
every day and it loves attention!
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