The journey took longer than we expected and it was growing dark as we arrived at Poreta, a few minutes before 7pm when the village shop closed.

By the time we had bought food for dinner it was full darkness.

Luckily Rosella, the shopkeeper, knew the accommodation. She closed the shop and walked with us to show us the way, and collected the key from the neighbor.

It was clean and functional and had lots of character.

It had been a long day, a 100km or more of fairly hard cycling, and we had pushed hard for the last few kilometers to beat the dark and catch the shop.

We enjoyed a meal of cheese, cold meat, bread and wine and slept like logs in the comfortable bed.