Orione,
It is a pleasure to read your updates; so glad to learn that you are able to move along despite the heat now here in France.
I wish you and your sister all the best for your walk together towards Vezelay.
Carpe diem and Godspeed.
That’s okay! 😄
I wrote last when I was in Epernay. From Epernay, I walked to Monmort-Lucy and stayed at a farm near Lucy that had a room especially for pelgrims. Very nice.
Then I walked on to Thalus-Prix and slept in the 12th century...
Gefeliciteerd, Orion! Your perseverance is amazing, I’m glad you are resting and recovering and I hope you don’t have to push yourself so hard too often. Your descriptions are beautiful, thank you for them. And I tell people in Canada there are...
I’m in Epernay!
I walked from Reims to Rilly-la-Montagne, which was a fairly easy going walk. It was great to enter the land of champagne fields and champagne making houses. There was no shade and it was very hot, but I managed the walk before...
Yes supplies are truly difficult to figure out here! Although I do think that people would give me some food if I asked them for it, I am definitely carrying more weight than I’d like just to be able to have decent meals without having to ask for...
Really enjoying reading along. I loved walking through France when I headed from home to SdeC - (I was on the more westerly Voie des Capitales and Voie du Littoral as i am Irish)- but was amazed by the locals and the welcome I got. But food can...
I spent the night in St Loup de Champagne with a lovely lady, who cooked a 5 course meal for me! It was St Jacques feast day, so it had to be celebrated!
The road from Chateau Porcien to Saint Loup was not very nice. I mostly walked on the side...
Sorry to hear about the accident, and great to read you will be starting again!
I am in Château-Porcien currently! I stayed the night in Lalobbe with a very lovely couple. There were some mud jungle bits left, but mostly that walk was very...
We are planning on walking the Via Campaniensis from Reims to Vezelay and on to St Jean Pieds to Port in 2025. We walked the Via francigena from London to rome (2022 and 2023, and the Camino Frances in 2019. we now wish to connect the two...
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