AboutLisa Expertise Can recommend day trips from Lucca, can give car directions from most places in Italy, and can help you plan an itinerary. But cannot recommend hotels and restaurants! For a train time table and info on Eurail passes, check out:
http://www.raileurope.com/us/rail/fares_schedules/index.htm
For general information, hotels and restaurants, visit frommers.com and tripadvisor.com
Experience I've been to Italy many times, and have traveled to Egypt, India, Nepal, Israel, Turkey, Fiji, Malaysia, and other places in Europe and the Caribbean.
Question Hi Lisa....there are 6 of us traveling to Lucca in mid October. We are staying in a villa outside Camiore. I know where to rent bikes but we are hoping to find bike routes to local wineries that are low-intensity. I cannot find a way to contact the Visitors Bureau for their response (an earlier question you answered). Is it even possible to have the lowest number of hills and still get to wineries? Thank you, Debbie
Answer Hi Debbie. Check out this bike/wine tour to get an idea of the scope:
You can start in Lucca for a 25 km bike ride around the wine country. Doesn't sound that difficult. They don't give an itinerary, but perhaps you could ask them for a map or the itinerary. Some of the towns that have wineries are Santo Stefano, S. Gennaro, Porcari, Montecarlo, and Altopascio. Here's a map that has most of those towns, starting with Lucca:
