Out On a Limb

At last, we’ve now reached a part of Italy which does not have twiddly roads - for now anyway. We spent a night in Sabbioneta, a World Heritage site, which is famous for its renaissance architecture (and persistent mosquitos), drove on into the mountains to Carpintere, and today to LuniMare, an open air Roman ruin and museum. Below are some pics of Sabbioneta - they had kindly put on an antique market for our visit.

The road today was exceptionally circuitous but we had a bit of amusement along the way. At one of the many roadworks we encountered we were stopped by a lovely chap in a high viz jacket. As dozens of cars backed up behind us and clock ticked over, everyone was wondering what was going on. There was the slight hint of a chain saw in the background and, after a stationary 25 minutes, we heard a giant crack as a very large tree fell across the road. All hands grabbed chainsaws and started sawing off limbs, a mini digger appeared and lifted them onto a truck. There was not a hard hat in sight. We later saw an ambulance heading in their direction and wondered if anyone had lost a limb or got a whack in the head.

After a few minutes casually blowing the debris from the road, the smiling worker waved us on with his lovely green paddle.