Moving Mountains part 6 - Adam J. Shardlow

Something strange is going on with the monthly episodes of Adam J. Shardlow's story Moving Mountains ..... The first was published in March. There was a gap in May as preparations to make the move from England to Italy gave him little time in front of the keyboards but from then on, regular as clockwork his articles have appeared each month here on barganews ... that is until the last week in July.



So what happened in July ? Adam and Helen married here in Barga and for some unaccountable reason the Moving Mountains Episode five has gone missing. It was delivered to the barganews office on time and all in one piece. It was uploaded to the servers but from there it seems to have just vanished into thin air.

Not really sure what to do about this, so in the meantime ......

Moving Mountains part 6 - Adam J. Shardlow

It is not until you travel through Italy that you realise what a diverse and complex country this is. In truth it is not a country at all but a collection of sovereign states that had little choice but to unite after Napoleon’s successful invasion of the land. The north still represent the rich and fertile soil that gave the country its name (Italia was in use by 500BC and derives from the tribal word for ‘calf’) while the south still feels it has had the rough end of the deal.
Having finished a week of parties, hellos and goodbyes for friends and family, we were able to breathe a collective sigh and embark on our Honeymoon. We had decided to travel down through Italy, via train from Barga to Rome and then by air to Sicily and the second largest of the Aeolian Islands, Salina

The rest of part six is here