Eager to get off to the holiday home, we navigated successfully to the Autostrada, but had to wait at least half an hour to join the flow, the volume of traffic being so high on a Saturday. Eventually the miles melted away and after a brief stop for sandwiches we were nearly there - but not before we had witnessed a forest fire and a helicopter overhead carrying a full load of water attempting to extinguish it. Back on familiar territory we felt at last we could being to relax and having stopped at the local shop for provisions, we began to wind our way up the hillside out of Bagni di Lucca up to our destination of Longoio.