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Pisa in January, in the rain, and the half of the city the day trips never see

It was a Tuesday in January, ten degrees, the kind of soft grey Tuscan winter rain that does not quite commit to being rain, and we had been on the coast for less than a month after a fall spent up in a stone village above Carrara. Marciaso had been beautiful and silent and very, very cold, and Sophia and I had eaten our way through Lunigiana, and what …