Hi to all you fans of Italy and especially Tuscany. We have just returned, from an extended holiday in the Tuscan Hills.....enjoying the fabulous food and drink. To try and moderate the excesses, we would often go for a walk to burn off the calories, prior to re-filling with many more of the same!
One day we learnt a valuable lesson about walking in the hills..........We set off at about 4.00pm for a short walk, only to get lost. (didn't take the map....stupid people!!)
We ended up walking for about four and a half hours solid, by which time it was dark. We realized that we were in trouble at about 6.00pm, and tried telephoning friends, to help us with directions. (we had a multiple choice of paths, and without the map we took the wrong path.) Eventually, decending down off the mountains, towards lights and the nearest village that we could see, we found civilization again, but far from home!
We knocked on a door and asked for help. Explaining our predicament, we realized that we were in a village on the other side of the mountain, and any rescue by our friends was going to be long winded. In fact it took them one and a half hours to reach us by car, as they had to travel right around the mountain. (no roads across). We Eventually reached home at 1.30am in the morning!
We had made some good new friends, in the people that helped us out, and allowed us into their home for a few hours....but what a way to meet them! Ciao amici.
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