I hope everyone had a good start to 2023!
Here are some pics from a #hike in #italy with three friends a while back:
‘This was the Mount #Velino; on a rugged hill, among its roots, a tuft of cypresses marked the site of the ancient prison-town of Alba. At the foot of the mountain, a beautiful wooded plain, verdant like an orchard, came forward to meet the lake; and through its bowers twinkled the roofs, church towers, and castle of Avezzano.’
- John Hill Burton (The Cairngorm mountains, 1864)