35km Yes 35 up 500m down 700m the guide book says this was only demanding not very demanding.
A comfortable night in our castle, after we were shown our room in the castle walls. Ray was a little late leaving and waved from our room.
Today is much more relaxing with none of the steep valleys across our path just a steady passage down the valley of the Fiume Magda. Ha Ha!
The day progresses slowly though pleasant woods but by midday we have not secured a bed for the night. Though we have found a lizard that refused to leave it’s rock in the stepping stone a large caterpillar and a pair of slow worms mating. The ultimate town of Aulla is a long way off, various plans evolve. We meet a young German walking this section by himself. We all enter the town of Terrarossa together. There used to be an Ostello here but no more, even the tourist information office next door is open but no one is there except two computers in a darkened room! We have now done 30km it is another 5km or so to Aulla we have planned to get the bus and bus back from the ostello there in the morning. Where is the bus stop,Ray asks A Politzi Municipal. He points 10m away! We, that is Ray and Betsy, chat to him. He and his mate are nonplussed, why do we want a bus it is only 2km to Aulla by cycleway. Eventually we accept there is no room in this town for pilgrims. We agree we can walk but since there is a bar a beer and snack fist seems a good idea. Our Politzi friends are waiting and show us across some scrub 200m to the cycleway it is a short 2km to Aulla across the bridge! And the first time any of us has been escorted out of town by police!