After leaving Bologna, we headed up many winding roads to Fanano where Gianmarco and Cristina live. Yet again we got to taste great homemade local food. It was great to catch up with them. The next morning we went for a walk and also to a great local cheese factory/shop where we got to buy great parmesan.
We then headed to Lucca, a lovely old city that is surrounded by 12m high city walls built in the 16th and 17th centuries. The next morning we cycled around the top of these walls. Lucca was a delightful town to wander around. Malcolm climbed the two towers in the town, one of which had a group of holm oak tres for shade.
The next day we went to Parma which is well known for its food industry. We spent a long time trying to manoeuvre through the one way streets of the old town to our hotel so after half an hour we finally made it to the hotel which was about 100 metres from where we began. We discovered that it was also had a lovely old centre to walk around, window shop and sightsee. Parma's Duomo, which was built in the 11th and 12th centuries, was amazing inside.
On the way back to Munich we stopped at a supermarket then in the town of Mantova which we walked around, had lunch and visited the Basilica which has two golden vessels that are said to hold earth soaked by the blood of Christ.
When leaving Italy we stopped at the last possible place to have Italian pizza late at night before crossing through Austria then home.
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