Flat cap (Mike): Yep. They seem to arrive, sleep, go. With just 2 weeks holiday a year they do everything at a dash. when you look at recommended trip itineraries they are proud to say how many sights they have seen (dashed passed) in a day.

Site Admin: did you also have the problem with the hordes of bash Americans? All of the towns were chock-a-blocked with them, you could hardly move. Fortunately almost none of them moves more than 100 yards from the train stations, so at least we had peaceful walks. I heard it's down to a famous American influencer name of Rick Steves whose travel agency alone ships 30.000 yankees a year to Italy.

Was there this summer too. Our son was married in the Apuane Alps in Tuscany. Your photos are way betther than mine though .. 👍