I walked to the bakers this morning but it was hot and a long walk along the main road so I don’t think I’ll bother again! Had nice fresh cornettos though – like croissants with icing sugar and slight lemon taste.
We drove up into the Abruzzo National Park. Dramatic scenery. Went to the central town and again failed to find the tourist information office, think they are some sort of secret society. We found an office organising guided tours that sold us a book and recommended a couple of nature trails.
The main one we went on was called ‘val fondillo’ and went along a river and then back through a beech wood. We stopped off for lunch and a siesta. We then went on to another short walk past a wolf protection area where we saw one slightly mangy looking wolf – not as impressive as the ones near Reading!
In the evening Clive told us that the entertainment in the square was a puppet show. We went and sat down in the square and the curtains on the stage opened to a set showing the outside of a bar. Three women came on and started talking to each other in an exaggerated pantomime way. Then they left and two men one with one trouser leg cut off came on, then an old man with his daughter then a priest. No sign of any puppets! There was a portable wood burning pizza oven behind us and the promise of free pizza but even that wasn’t enough to persuade us to stay.
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