More Country Roads

As you may have heard in the news, the weather has been very cold in much of Europe. They had snow in Naples, much more south than Florence, and some people have even died.

Here it has been and still is sunny, but today, as in the previous days, the maximum is around +2 and it gets colder in the night as open water is frozen when you get up in the morning and stays frozen most of the day.

Florentine ice!

We have had a few more walks in the country. Most of the views are of stone walls.

You wonder walking on these roads how many Italians have spent their lives building stones walls over the centuries, because there must be thousand of kilometers of these roads.

 Some of these roads are slippery, and I bet you would never guess why. It is not because of ice, but because olive trees hang over them. The olives fall, the cars  crush them, and the edge of the road ends up being covered with olive oil (100% pure virgin oil)!

Some houses have warning signs for guard dogs or even guard cats.

There are even more original signs.

Beware of dogs, beware of fighting roosters and beware of fighting ganders!

Look at the tire marks on the road above. They give you a very good idea of the amount of space you have to get out of the way when you meet with a car on one of these roads. Actually the cars are not bad, but  a regular-sized bus makes you feel pretty small.