.....and it's hot. We had to be packed and out of our room by 10 a.m. so had plenty of time to kill before 4.30 coach to Volterra...which is somewhere south west of here.
We headed downhill towards the river but didn't get there as decided we really ought to take in some religious culture. Paid to get into massive church which was very gloomy and stuffy but had lovely cloisters. Managed an hour or so and had to escape. Meandered our way back via the pizza shop - extremely yum - and took refuge in hotel lobby which is glorously cool.
This is the mummified remains of St. Zita who did good works and has thus been sanctified and preserved at St. Frediano's church in Lucca. (apparently St. Fred was Irish and nobody knows how he managed to rise to sainthood with his own establisment in Italy!)
We have in fact arrived at Volterra and it was quite an adventure but I'l let Marcus tell you all about it tomorrow...
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