We headed back down the now familiar twisting SS74 through Marsiliana, Albinia and returned to Grosetto. The return journey turned out to be a lot cheaper as we hadn't got a ticket, the driver didn't seem to want to sell us one and on arriving at Grosseto, no-one asked for one!
...'Gratuito'....
Now familiar with place, we checked back into the same Hotel San Lorenzo that we had enjoyed a few days earlier and then immediately left to grab a Panini and return back to the train station for a 20 minute ride up the coast to Follonica.
The reason...Follonica Aqua Park!
In soaring temperatures we spent a wet and wild afternoon climbing hundreds of steps to go shooting down twisting pipes and 50 metre death slides with names like Kamikaze and Anaconda providing frequent but compulsory bouts of colonic irrigation!
Plunging into pools on rubber dinghies and battling through icy waterfalls, the water park had it all.
The kids loved it....!
A fancy white Mercedes taxi opened its automatic side doors to take us wearily back to the 'Stazione' and then on the next train, with our tickets validated, we were back in Grosetto.
The only thing left to do was to revisit the delicatessen 'Gustangolo' on Via Solferino and sit outside until the sun went down with a glass or 3 of, this time another fantastic find, and an absolute scorcher, 'Ansonica' from Celestina Fe.
Once again, Ristorante 'L'Uva e il Malto provided a fine end to the day with more stunningly tasty plates of food.
'Slide Away' is still a favourite from 'Oasis' off their debut album, and arguably best 'Definitely Maybe'.
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