All the Cs ...

On Wednesday, we took Izzy and Mike to Castiglione for coffee, then through the market town of Castelnuovo and up past the villages of Colle and Croce and via a detour through the chestnut forest to Carregine where we had a picnic lunch.

Castiglione - posing after coffee with the Pania in the distance

Castiglione - another medieval bridge over another very dry river (all set to change soon, apparently!)

Chestnuts glowing in the sun

A metato (chestnut kiln) lurks among the trees, with its stock of fuel neatly stacked on left

A new one on us - a chestnut harvester - basically a giant hoover for the forest floor!

Almost back at Barga (at St Pietro in Campo) we spotted Luciano with part of their flock enjoying a bite ...

... as did we later, in a pizzeria down in Fornaci di Barga