My breakfast this morning included ’Fichi d’India’ which were surprisingly sweet.
In Australia, they’re called ‘prickly pear ‘ and were introduced in 1788. This caused a disaster as it spread over 60 million acres (24.3 million hectares) of land making it unusable.
I would have liked to have spent a day in Prizzi to look around – perhaps another time.
Herding sheep by car…
and by horse.
A lot of today’s walking was in the Region Monte Carcaci Park. Thankfully this meant quite a bit of shade from the conifers.
After crossing these hills, I was back in another quite dry valley.
Just a church, a school and three houses remain in the fascist era hamlet of Borgo Riena. The story goes that an escaped prisoner serving a life sentence lived here for years in the 1950s.
From here, I could see my destination, Castronovo, off in the distance. I had a few more hours of walking in the hot sun though, and there was very little shade.
At this point, I reached the half way point of the Cammino.
From here there was a slippery slidey walk on a stony pathway to my destination. I even had to unfold my walking poles to avoid falling over. I always carry them, but rarely use them.
My Relive video for today :
Paul's Walks Through Europe 
I’ve read that people eat the prickly pear fruit in other countries. Interesting. Glad to see you used your poles down that slippery slope. Xx The countryside looks so hot, stay safe xxxx
Sharon Beeston
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always Nice amazing pictures ! Is it your car the red one ? 😉
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