cicadas cicadas cicadas 5 days in Tuscany, which were originally to be 5 days Tagliolo Monferrato (with adjoining Festival dumplings with meat sauce ... and a tradition of over twenty years ...)
The base, a farm on the outskirts of San Giuliano Terme (below the slew of tricks) found by chance on 26 July, when along with my trusty Jak Asciano we headed for the last show seasonal weblog 2PW.
From there, the project provided for excursions along the mountains and the sea at Marina di Pisa Vecchiano ... but first things first :-)
Monday, August 3 Departing from Genoa with attached renewal of the blue sticker and check tire pressure . Esco
Pisa Nord and I expect a tremendous tail ... well, I expect, now that I'm an expert 's
hinterland Pisa and I would like a detour in the horizontal and along old Modica, through peaceful Pontasserchio before landing in San Giuliano Terme. Step
steering wheel to the Pro Loco to make maps for trekking and of course to inform the rental service for bicycles.
Ok, we are ready for check-in available!
From there, lunch in San Giuliano and then straight to the first path, the Ring of Asciano. The first stop is the fascinating
mediceo aqueduct, unfortunately not properly maintained (in mid 1700), and the huge cistern.
From there you climb in the trees, salt, salt, salt (salt is the killer!) Until Mirteto, site of an ancient monastic community (there is little or nothing) and a pretty Romanesque church ransacked of anything.
Go ahead and blatantly wrong road here, unfortunately (but those who wrote the infamous description of the route have 75% of the blame, maybe more) and I find myself in a cobblestone path that goes down sharply, with no apparent destination, but - thanks to my past academic year
orienteering - I can also report to me on the highway.
We arrive at the village of Agnano, complete with voices and the smell of soup to break the windows of huts (do not say "fragrance" of soup because I hate him. If any of you like it, do not take it to bad), crowded with guard dogs in every corner, and from there the trail joins Asciano Belvedere me where my first journey ends ... Six hours!
Back in the room, shower, controllatina the transfer market (but that is more stagnant Samp ... still!) And go out looking for a place to dine. The problem is that almost everything is closed on Mondays, and the car - or the road, or both - bring me through Calci, Uliveto Spa (with a lot of establishment of 'health
water) until the House, a town with a walk which is a brick beauty. Just walk on
find a bar with a small pizzeria ... And pappaaaa! What
sleep though ... A decaffeinated coffee and ran into the farmhouse in snoring :-)
Tuesday, August 4 The second path leads me to the trekking so-called Ring of Buti, a village that has provided me with many problems to get there (maybe because I tried to touch it because air rising from the Great Mountain?)
say that even here I have done some messing around with the map, as I reached very little of what I was described on the guide: the bad luck I still got to find a path from which it is shod was simply fantastic stop to the "stick" of the room, with a hawk (or similar volatile, I am no expert) that hovered around.
From there down in the woods, binge as well as more fresh water that flowed here and there.
returned to San Giuliano, go straight in the direction of Marina di Vecchia, where I expect an endless sandy beach (or almost all with free admission) and a beautiful beach a bit 'rough because of the Mistral, but unique and extremely enjoyable.
Come back to "base", a quick call to the Pro Loco to reserve your bike for the day after ....
Wednesday, August 5 You go to take the bike and down miles back and forth to Marina of old (22 km in total, if I still can not believe it ... I'm crazy!), In the middle of the machine 2PW organizational moves and get confirmation of Friday Fever Evening, Aug. 28 in Memorial Square in Cascina.
It 'still all afternoon to be dedicated to 2PW, also because with a show at the gates - which effectively removes any solution of continuity with the new season - of things to manage, there are several.
Appointment to the streets with others, of course, but first you need to do a bit 'of pimps, no?!? The car takes me Caprona, and other satisfactions :-)
Thursday, August 6 The last full day in Tuscany at the sea begins and ends on the lawn ... the Piazza dei Miracoli in Pisa, where the boys I was not brought before me escorted through the streets of downtown. What, Pisa is a very beautiful city and I think also very human scale. The Tower of Pisa is terribly wrong (do not know how he manages to stand on) and just as fascinating as the stories I have been told of the cathedral, its symbols and legends that revolve around you ...
You return home ... Even if at this moment I'm writing from a hotel in Rostock (because they are a kind original!).
These days, well deserved and tried relaxation, scents and sounds gave me that I did not live much longer, thanks now my increasing lack the High Monferrato who saw me grow, summer after summer. For miles and miles, as in the pine forest on the mountains of Pisa who brought me to the sea, has not stopped even for a second roboare column sound of cicadas seems strange that now I no longer feel.
time hustlers:
- Farm "Ancient Customs," Highway to Mount Abetone, 5 Km San Giuliano Terme (PI)
- Pizzeria Pizza & Confectionery, Cascina (PI)
- Pizzeria "La Casaccia" , goat (PI)
- Restaurant Pizzeria "From Mary," Modica (PI)
At the next appointment I will speak of Rostock, which has now entered into my heart and it is so difficult to separate, especially because who knows how long I can not go back here (for work of course ...)
Ciaoooo
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