Lunch on the patio consisted of chicken, wedgy potatoes cooked in olive oil (found in the cupboard) and fresh rosemary, lettuce and grated carrot. The afternoon was spent sunbathing and reading up on places to visit. About 5 o’clock, I persuaded Graham to go for a drive and off we went down the winding hill (and when I say winding, I mean winding, such as you will never find in the UK!) down to Bagni di Lucca, across the river and surprise, surprise up another winding road on the other side of the valley. We stopped for a walk round at Bennabbio and then on to the next village until we arrived at the largest village around, Vallia Basilica. From there I was hoping that we’d wend our winding way back to Bagni, but it didn’t quite work out that way, and after an hour we were actually back at Vale Bassica having found the end of a major jamboree at the top of our winding way and our way barred. Luckily Graham accepted the situation stoically and off we went. Our reward was to be at the top of a small mountain just as the sun was setting behins a range of picturesque mountains with the moon above – it really was ‘one of those moments’ difficult to capture it’s full beauty without being there yourself…
On arrival and after ‘tea’ we settled down to watch a DVD on Graham’s Power Book (there’s no television in the house) and sample the delights of the local fruit I’d bought the day before.
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