The customers sitting outside Aristo’s bar in Barga Vecchia hastily collected their glasses and scuttle inside to the comparative safety as what looked like a huge storm suddenly blew up out of nowhere coming down from the North.
The temperature dropped, the light changed and it looked as though we were in for some violent weather.
Instead it passed over it in a couple of minutes, the rain was enough just to dampen the tablecloths and moisten the seats and then it was gone.
But, what it left in its path was some beautiful horizontal light streaming in as the sun went down and some stunning rainbows set off against the dark and departing storm clouds.