On Wednesday we had a circular walk around the woods and fields where we are staying and foraged for sweet chestnuts on the way. The winds of the previous two days had
brought down a lot of the fruit before it was ready, so we had to make sure we
were picking the burrs that were brown and half open.
The winds had also brought down some trees and when Karen went for her morning run the road was closed while the trees were cleared by firemen with chainsaws – reminded us of contractors
doing the same thing back in the UK when trees fall across the cut.
Now the wind has gone, the
sun is back to its intensity of the last few weeks, so we just spent the rest
of the day at home.
Thursday was our weekly
supermarket shop day but with such gorgeous weather we didn’t venture out
until later in the afternoon. We decided
to go to a new town for us, Arcidosso, to try a different supermarket as it was
a couple of miles beyond Castel del Piano where we did our weekly shop last
week.
I mentioned the bells the
other day and it does seem that we have only heard them on Sunday (unlike every day and every hour in France!) and we think we found
the culprits on our way:
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| The bells |
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| The tower at the top of Arcidosso |
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The tower at the top was
closed so we will need to find out when it opens and return another day. We were impressed how clean and tidy the
streets were and Buddy was impressed with the number of cats; it seemed every
time we turned a corner a cat would scuttle off up an alleyway.
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We were approaching a bar
when an Italian stopped us and asked me if I had ever seen the Grateful
Dead. I was a bit taken aback as it was
a really strange opening line. I replied
that I had, back in the early 1970s and he explained that they were his
favourite band. I asked him what had
made him ask the question and he just pointed at my tee-shirt – I hadn’t clicked
which one I was wearing at the time 😊
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