Colonnata Marble Mine Hike Part 1

Today at got up and packed up and were able to check in this morning for our last place in Italy - just down the hill from where we were staying. We dropped our stuff off and headed off for our hike for the day - a hike from Colonnata amongst the marble mines! We got there and there were lots of clouds in the mountains, but like the other day they came and went all day. The trail starts in a tiny town and as we were trying to decide what to do (there were two hike options, one slightly longer that went up another smaller mountain) and this guy walked by and was trying to tell us to go up the other smaller mountain and he kept pointing to the map was there with a photo of something and speaking Italian and would not that we did not understand him and finally I was just like yes! Okay! Okay! To everything he said and pretended like I understood it all and then he left and we went other way (we did end up going where we was directing us at the end of the trail).

The trail went through a super small section of town then basically went straight up the side of the mountains we were climbing. There were a lot of rocks to climb up and we were glad it was not wet as they would have been slippery! Lots of photos of Raymond hiking today as he was in front (I normally am) because the trail wasn’t really a trail and I am terrible at finding the way. It wasn’t too bad of a hike up to the highest point and it had great views of the mines and the mountains the whole way up. We did find this weird bug - an Owly Sulphur, which apparently are not very common so that was fun! He was sitting in a blade of grass and kept moving around the grass as I tried to take a photo like at wouldn’t see it if it did that. It was pretty funny.Read more