We had already decided that we were going to finish our trip at Abetone so today had that end of walk, anticlimactic feel to it. I had originally hoped to get as far San Pellegrino (at least) but the struggle with accommodation and the time involved in completing some of the stages have left us a couple of days off plan. Despite the fog we've been lucky with the weather but the forecast for the rest of the weak suggests that this luck is coming to an end. Also it's easy to get down the mountain from Abetone so the plan for one more day's walking, and then a trip to Lucca and a day's recuperation before flying home, makes a lot of sense.
We had also been lucky with our stay at Cutigliano. Catigliano is not as accessible as it looks on the map and if we hadn't managed to cadge a lift both ways it would either have been very expensive (taxis) or involved some tough additional walking. Walking all the way to Abetone would probably have been a better option but that it would have been a long day and dependant on a early morning lift up to Orsigna from the owner of the Hotel Melini.
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