It snowed in the night at Stiffe. In the morning it began to snow more heavily. We decided that the small roads we had been travelling on were dangerous so we went back north a few kilometres and joined route 17 going south east near L'Aquila.

We went along okay for a while until we passed the town of Sulmona and headed up towards a high pass. The snow got thicker and the road more slippery so we decided to turn around and head back to Sulmona.

We found a large car park, waited for the snow to abate and headed off into town. This is the tourist office.

Next to the tourist office is this rather ornate church.

It's even more ornate inside. I think they call this style baroque.

Sulmona is famous for the manufacture of confetti. Not the stupid little paper discs that get thrown around at British weddings - confetti here means really delicious sweets that get thrown around at Italian weddings. We bought some and they really are delicious!

There is a very well preserved medieval aqueduct in the main square.

The square is named after Garibaldi - the father of modern Italy?

Snow covered mountains rear up at the end of many streets. It's dark now and very cold and we're back in our van with the heating on.