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Bagni di Pisa | The Tuesday Cure

You do not have to be rich, or even stay the night, to take the waters where the Shelleys did.

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Peter Benei
May 22, 2026
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By the sea, cold hits differently.

We had colder winters in Hungary, real ones, the kind that go well below zero and stay there for weeks, and I thought I knew what cold was. Then we moved to the marina and learned the other kind. It is only ten or twelve degrees here in the depth of winter, nothing a Hungarian should respect, but the wind comes off the …

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