Vagli Sotto is on Lago Vagli within the Apuan alps park. It's really beautiful and verdant. We sit at around 600m and are surrounded by mountains which is all very beautiful but it does mean that we have to do some serious climbing to get out of this valley!
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| Our house is in that village |
We spent a little time relaxing in our house which is small, cosy and rustic but in a groovy way
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| Kitchen |
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| Dining area |
We've been exploring around the area a fair bit though. On Sunday we rode up the hill to Roggio and had a super lunch at ristorante Colletti (recommended by the owner of our house). They use a lot of their own produce
The lunch was huge with 3 antipasti platters, followed by a pasta course
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| Part 3 (!) of the antipasti |
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| Maccherone with ragu |
| And a mains platters which had fried rabbit, wild boar sausage, pork ribs, roasted chicken, pork and beef! |
| Maccherone with ragu |
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| Main course platter |
Needless to say, we rolled down the hill after this one! Oh, this cost a bit more but still 64 euros, including bottled wine, or a little under $100! Was a bargain!
On Monday, we rode on a very minor road up some good inclines (wishing we had our mountain bikes!) up to a village called Carregine where we had some cappucini before riding on further up the hill before descending almost 1000m to Castenuovo di Garfagnana
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| Wishing we had mountain bikes |
There, I bought guinea fowl at the supermarket (!) to cook for dinner that night before going to our 'local' to watch Germany thrash Portugal 4-0. Italians are extremely parochial, in that they simply don't watch any football game unless italy is playing. When italy played and beat England, the bar was full, rowdy and full of character. for any other game, no one even looks at the screen!
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| Too much climbing dad! |
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