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Shopping in Lucca

italian grocery shop

Italian grocery shop

Shopping in Lucca, Tuscany this morning – always a joy. Might take Mary Portas with me next time so that she can be even more enthused about turning our drab, identikit Tesco filled high streets around. I don’t know whether it’s low rents or what, but the variety is astonishing – nip down a side alley and pass a higgledy-piggledy veg shop overflowing with seasonal produce standing next door to a place that only seems to sell door knockers, then an elegant chocolate shop that’s been in business since 1840 before stopping at a miniature four-tabled cafe for the best coffee going. Also, everyone seems to be supporting these places, from the old man balancing a box of 24 beers on his rusty old shopper to the fashionable twenty something managing dry cleaning, a bicycle and an animated conversation on her mobile.

 

 

 

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