As a bit of nostalgia we went up to Barga in the Carfangnana area north of Lucca, for the weekend. This is where Ian spent a month doing a colour etching course 20 years ago in 1998. I joined him half way through. It is a gorgeous little 10th Century mountaintop fortified village with a new town over a small gully. Lots of people here speak Italian with a Scottish accent as, after WW2 People from here went to Scotland to work, especially in the shipyards. Now later generations are returning. Getting there and back was a bit of a mission, bus up and train down but I won’t bore you with the details. We had delicious handmade ice blocks with white chocolate in the middle, to cool us down during the hour and a half
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