The valley opens before us like a puddle spreading from an overflowing bathtub. Row after row of olive trees and vines for most of the 28 kms to San Severo which is a small but charming town that was sealed tight for the 25th of April, a national holiday celebrating Italy’s victory over the Germans in WW2. We settled for a pizza place that happened to have very good food. After San Severo luxuriant fields of fava beans, wheat and asparagus, the latter being worked by people from Africa, many from Ghana, on hundreds of electric carts. Ghanaians gathering greens from golfcarts on the Gargano.
The Gargano massif, which we will climb tomorrow to San Giovanni Rotondo, looms 4000 ft over us, a challenge to our stamina and endurance.
Walking the Via Francigena 
Love the pictures. Not understanding how the golf carts are used in the harvest, but intrigued. How are the shoes, and the feet within them, holding up?
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Fava Power!
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Fascinating part of the country — that we know almost nothing about. Good for you — for tackling the Gargano Massif. But what is life if you don’t challenge yourself. (H says sipping a glass of wine in the comfort of his home.)
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The comment above is from Dale and me. Frank
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Wonder how the workers from African countries like living in Italy. Wonderful scener. ELena
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Golfcarts
Ghanaian guys
Gathering growing greens
Gargano glows golden glower
Going
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good luck
we are with you, climb every mountain! Love it all the best Sandy and Hugh
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