Arrived back in Barga late last night to discover there had been a thunderstorm whilst we had been away and the electricity had gone off and freezer full of food had gone off as well - literally! Veg are doing well at last, and grass needs strimming. Weather still not settled and today the sky was a dark grey, impending rain but did not materialise.
Just above San Remo is the old village of Bussana Vecchia. An earthquake struck in 1887 totally destroying the village but in the 1960s it was taken over by hippies from several European countries, repairing the houses to a reasonable state and creating an artist colony. There have been several attempts by the Italian government to evict, the last being in 1997 but so far they have succeeded in staying. I like the village a lot. It has a creative atmosphere, lovely to stroll around and see what these inhabitants have done with very little money on improving their homes.
