Arriving at Lucca and starting two weeks of cloistered study and prep

I left Turin yesterday morning at 8am on a train to Lucca. I won’t write a description of Lucca as if I am an expert — but it’s a walled in old city, and I’m inside the walled part. It’s in the Tuscany region, which is where Florence is, as well as Pisa. And it’s close enough to the sea that I am constantly in conversation with myself that I should go t…