You know the Italians are famous for their cars. Ferrari, Lamborghini and Alfa Romero. So what's the most popular car we have seen? It's the Ape 50 cc pick up. Well I have seen some 100 cc versions with the twin overhead cam and fuel injection. But this is what the modern farmer is using. I've got handbags bigger than the drivers compartment, but what a motor. Why haven't we got these in England? We are now definitely in what you would think of tradional Tuscan...

This is a photo that Roger took and it's the wrong way round. Ha, it's not just me. This is from the sculpture school at Pietrasanta where we are staying tonight. The whole town is a sculpture park. We walked past so many marble factories on the way in. It's the centre of the marble and granite industry here and old sculptors like Michangelo came here to choose marble. And some if the world's best new sculptors work and train here too. Such a pretty place, les...

The pic is of Roger in the square where we were staying. But it was party night last night and our apartment was so historic it only had shutters and the party in the square went on until 1 and at 6 in the morning the cleaning trucks arrived. Speechlessly tired but it's only 11 miles today. Man up and get through due to wonderful coffee on the way. Arrive at Avenza and we are staying at a hostel next to the church. Only people in the hostel. Eat pizza and nic...

The pic shows Roger having our breakfast in Aulla. Rotisserie chicken and chips. It just about set us up for a very day. More then 15 miles including and up anddownthe equivilent of Snowden. Wonderful views including seeing the sea for the first time, but imagine how tired we were arriving in Sazana. Imagine how bad it was walking into the dry roughest part of town. And then imagine there is no reply at the block of grubby flats when we get to the address. So bo...

Sorry for intermittent blog posts but wifi has been impossible in the rural areas. We had a rest day on Thursday in Pontremoli which is a lovely historic town. Although we are now in Tuscany, the locals stress that we are in Lunigiana district. We've tried their local speciality of testarola which is like a savoury pancake and it's mushroom season here and they make a fab sauce with fried mushrooms tomatoes and red wine. The weather and walking have been fine...