We dipped into the Italian hot spring experience for the first time. Kid-friendly it's not: The 20 euro entry price was not included with the hotel, despite the name--Antico Albergo Terme. Jack was not allowed into the steamy grottos. And we were required to wear swimming caps.
Still, Bagni di Lucca was charming. Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning spent summers in
the town 150 years ago. We hiked up the 900-year-old Ponte Della Maddalena (otherwise known as "Ponte Del Diavolo"). We found a slow food devotee who makes incredible brown-corn-flecked polenta with pecorino cream sauce.
And Jack was perfectly happy swimming in the hotel pool--even with a swimming cap that "looks weird."
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