15km up 955m down 422m. Up and down steep slippy limestone paths.
Onward today from the nice ostello with the well equipped kitchen and the lady Hospitalero with the loud voice under the bells that toll at 8pm and 6am for 30 rings! So an early start then. The Australian and Dutch group in the ostello beat us by road to Casio. Not by much though it is a bit further.
There was a rumour, unfounded, that it had stopped raining. But it’s not as much as yesterday. We go up the road to Bardone where there is a church of variable antiquity certainly Christian since 6C but quite possibly a pre Christian site on this ancient route across the north Appennines. Moving on we slip and slide up and up a path through the woods until we arrive at Castillo do Casola which has a fortified church.
It’s then down a path with discesa pericoloso signs, not for the last time today. We start towards the Devil’s false teeth they seem not far but well below. The next path is even worse and signs direct pilgrims with loads around a slightly less pericoloso route. We spot a few wild peonies and one of the non chlorophyll symbiotic plants we have seen before. Eventually we reach the teeth, a set of pinnacles guarding the valley up to Casio and have our sandwiches at picnic tables less than a km from the village.
We enter the village through the archway by an interesting fountain and quickly find the ostello we are booked in. The Hospitalero is there he shows us our rooms. Men and women, Betsy lucks in and is next found nearly asleep with her feet warmed by a fluffy creature of indeterminate type.