Walking out of Buonconvento this morning on the way to San Quirico we followed a ridge fairly high above the town with great 360 views of the Tuscan hills. At one point just as we walked past a deserted hilltop farm (there are quite few on our trail), I looked down and in one vista there was Italy...... Hilltop farms with Cypress lined driveways, vineyards, olive groves and fallow fields ready to plant in spring, on hills and in valleys, walled villages with church towers, stone houses crowded around cobblestone streets, then new housing developments on the edge of town, supermarkets and industrial zones, and finally on the edge of town a block of individual garden plots, everything except the artichokes has been harvested.
We made San Quirico in good time today, rested up, and supplied ourselves for tomorrow. 33kms of up and down, we climb to 800m overall with no supply points on the track. This is our biggest and most demanding day so far, it is mountain terrain but becomes barren, exposed and wild toward the the end. I am about to check our friend Manuel's blog to see how he went today.
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