Leisurely lunch in Parma ...

Although it's rainy here today, it was a beautiful day on Wednesday, when Jenny was to leave us to go to Bologna before flying home.  And so we decided to accompany her on the train up the Serchio valley and on to Parma for lunch.

The valley trip is spectacular, and, once through the Appenines, the expanse of the Po valley emerges, and visible in the distance, the snowy peaks of the Alps - over a hundred miles away.

Grand day for a trip

At Barga's little station 

The chapel at the village Sambuca on its rocky crest

Frescos in Parma's wonderful Art Nouveau Post Office

Parma's baptistry and the Piazza del Duomo 

Baptistry and campanile of the duomo

Inside Parma's lovely duomo 

Feeling jolly after lunch on the (tented) pavement