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Last Day.....a bit of a bust...until!

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Our last day of hiking today and we fueled up with a good breakfast from our Agriturismo and headed out for what promised to be a long final stretch.  We set out on the trails through the town of Torca towards the coast and climbed to the first ridges to view the coast again.  After climbing up and down with reasonably marked paths, but terrible path guidance we took a minor detour but quickly got back on the right path.  We were supposed to drop down into a small inlet called Recommone, then around a point to Marina del Cantone but the path down to Recommone was so overgrown with vegetation and so steep, we could not safely pass through.  We tried finding different ways down for over an hour but the trails simply did not seem passable.  After looking for another way around, the paths just fizzled out and we were forced to take an seldom used local path up to the villages of Campi and Caprile and then made our way back to St. Agata via local roads.  The he...
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Only Two Days to Go! - Santa Maria al Castello to St. Agata/Torca

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So, today we are making our way closer to the end of the peninsula.  We are heading for the villages of Torca and St. Agata where we will bunk into our last Agriturismo,  Le Tore.  Another picture perfect day today.  Although it was hot today, it was not as humid as previous days.  We experienced high winds last night which kept us up for most of the night as the shutters at our B&B were continually banging against the walls,  but they also swept away a lot of the humidity. We were prepared for a difficult hike today as the trail guidance warned us of many tricky spots along the way.  In fact, it was quite straightforward with only one difficult to find area.  We made it to our destination in a little over 6 hours, with an nice lunch stop at a castle and a terrific Gelato stop in the village of Colli di Fontanelle.   This evening, our Agriturismo prepared a great 3 course dinner of ingredients all from their farm, even the w...
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