Stage 29b: Fucecchio to San Miniato. Donkeys and ditches.

A lazy, short stage of 10km down from Fucecchio across the Arno to the hilltop town of San Miniato.  After clearing the road out of Fucecchio, the route followed the Arno for a short stretch, past the little veggy gardens of the suburbs, until the dike veered away and struck out into lowland villages, while San Miniato started to loom ahead.  

A stiff climb up a winding road with no pedestrian path, and poor signage as the bends became hairpin, before finally levelling out on the main street.  There was more climbing to an ornate piazza

and more to the cathedral

and yet more to a belvedere looking down on the town.  But I saw these two lovely girls instead.

I could have climbed even more up a tower, but I'd have had to pay, so I got my stamp in the tourist office and took the bus down to my B&B, mendaciously described as on the Via (evidently 400m across a main road and a large ditch doesn't count).