In a journey that is familiar to untold numbers of British holidaymakers, we negotiate our way through the ill-signposted streets of Pisa to reach the autostrada to Lucca.

Ahead of us lie Florence and the hill towns, olive groves and vineyards that populate a thousand Tuscan dreams. Nothing so obvious for an old Italian hand such as Theo Randall, though.

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