Day 2, Gambassi Termi to San Gimignano, about 16 km.
We knew it was meant to rain a lot this afternoon so we left early - 1 km straight up hill! Then a long way down and then back up again - a lot of up. Again the scenery was amazing, rolling hills, hill top villages and old houses.
Worst bit - walking along the road with Italian drivers trying to see how close they could get to us without actually making contact
Best bit - (other than having a bath in our room) a car suddenly pulled up in front of us, a monk in full, voluminous, brown habit lept out crying ‘Buon Camino!’. He hugged us both and kissed our cheeks and shook our hands. He was so excited to meet 2 pilgrims. We had quite a one sided chat with him - he just spoke Italian and we just nodded and said ‘si’ in what we hoped were the right places. Then he jumped back in his car and drove off!
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| Leaving our refugio and heading uphill to the centre of Gambassi Termi |
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| Past a sales room selling Lamborghini tractors! Who knew? |
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| It's starting to rain as we walk down hill and into the valley. |
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| A lady opened the vineyard shop so we could have our pilgrim passports stamped. |
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| Looking back at Gambassi Termi. |
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| An amazing rosemary hedge - it's so difficult to grow back home! |
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| An underground grotto in a place where a young girl had a vision of Mary. |
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| One of these isn't a statue! |
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| A long and winding roads that mainly goes up! |
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| A pretty farm. |
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| And Up!! |
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| Our destination in the distance, San Gimignano and it's many towers. |
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| Oh, still going up! |
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| Could there be a caffe in this village? Nope! |
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| The gates of San Gimignano. |
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| Walking uphill into the centre of town. |
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| Our home for the evening. |
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| As we arrived it really started to rain and there was thunderstorms too. We sat in the restaurant and watched. I love the way the houses in these hilltop towns all fit together. |
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