Little Tuscan Beach Towns.
I was flooded with a strong, vivid sense of familiarity and deja vu. We were on a beach about an hour and a half away from Florence and I couldn't, for the life of me, shake off the feeling that this place looked exactly like home. Not my home in the States, but my home in India. See, my ancestry is deeply rooted in Goa; a state in India that is known for it's beaches and 'siesta' lifestyle. Of course I'd spent most of my life in Bombay, but even the promenade of this little Tuscan beach was similar to the one I frequently went to there. Man, was I dizzy with deja vu. The little town called Viareggio is a beach town in the province of Lucca which, like I mentioned, is not too far from Florence. Despite the fact that we were making a trip to the Amalfi coast, I really wanted to visit one of the Tuscan beaches, and since Viareggio was so close, we decided to do it on the weekend we went to Pisa. And of course, as I'd come to expect from little