Apuan Roadtrip | A Steak, a Friend, and the Long Way Down to Lucca

From Aulla to the Serchio valley, the inland road back

There are two ways to drive from Aulla to Lucca. The first is the one everyone takes. You drop down to the coast at Sarzana, you join the A12 and then the A11, you put the cruise control on, you spend ninety minutes looking at the same Tyrrhenian to your right, the same colored umbrellas in their colored rows along the same Versilia beaches, the same tr…