Day 2 on the Gulf of Poets

On Tuesday we walked to the village of Tellaro where we were to spend the night.  After lunch we then walked to Montemarcello, where the rumbles of thunder turned into heavy rain, but a bus arrived in the nick of time to get us home.  D.H. and Frieda Lawrence lived here in 1913 and 1914; we didn't find their house, but we did see Via D.H. Lawrence ....

Leaving Lerici - the steps were to get progressively steeper!

Our coffee stop - the tiny village of La Serra above Lerici

The path from La Serra to Tellaro very nearly beat us - here Barbara negotiates a fallen tree over the path already nigh impassable due to excavation by wild boar

The covered street on the seafront of Tellaro makes a useful winter boat-store ...

... in front of which the old sailors can take the sun ...

The Tyrrhenian Sea looking rougher than we've seen it

The next leg took us along the top of spectacular cliffs ...

... on a better path - for a while at least!

Crossing a spectacular rock-fall which must have  caused some problems for the keepers of the paths

From Montemarcello, looking east through the rain, to the distant Apennines