After two years of lock-down events are really beginning to return in our part of the world.

Here are just a few which have interested me.

Open air Cinema at Cafaggio:

The season of films being showing at Cafaggio’s open-air cinema continues tonight with Raya and the Last Dragon  a 2021 fantasy adventure film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. directed by Don Hall and Carlos López Estrada, co-directed by Paul Briggs and John Ripa and produced by Osnat Shurer and Peter Del Vecho. The film is based on traditional Southeast Asian cultures and as we’ve visited such amazing countries as Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos we are particularly keen to watch it tonight. Sandra suggests we should also bring plenty of mosquito repellent as well!

Morning Yoga in Bagni’s gardens on Wednesday and Friday mornings at 10 am is proving very popular and is teaching me lots about body-mind balance;

Bagni di Lucca’s literary festival continues as follows:

The concert for the winners of the Adolfo Betti quartet competition will be on this week at Bagn di Lucca’s Town Hall. The standard of playing of these musicians is so high as to be quite unmissable!

July finishes on a high note – the Grand ducal mountain road leading to Modena and Parma.

And that’s just the beginning. There’s plenty more to follow including Morena’s exhibition.