I ventured off the Via at 11am into the narrow, winding, stepped streets of Ponzano Superiore, another hilltop town, its houses piled improbably on top of each other, and stopped at the church for some shade, food and rest.
Just above the town I took the shot of the huge container facility at Santo Stefano di Magra, which I know the Bro would have taken.
And then on, with a few sneaky climbs springing up when least expected, down a flaking shale path, through the ruins of Brina Castle, which used to guard the Via,
And on until reaching the valley bottom and the crystal waters of the Lunense Canal, with plenty of little fish visible.
It's a long hot haul of 3km from there into the main square of Sarzana, where I greedily downed a vanilla milkshake, then headed to the station, caught a train in the wrong direction and had an hour's wait before the ride back to rain-dampened streets in Pontremoli.
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