Tassie Kaz
Sempre Avanti
- Time of past OR future Camino
- 2024?
London to Rome:
21 March - 20 June, 2019
"The sorry relief of arrival..."
Gideon Lewis-Kraus, A Sense of Direction
2,847,786 steps
5234+ flights of stairs (frm ) = equiv ascent 2117.9 kilometres walked
93 days
84 Schengen visa days
36 degrees C, top temperature
7 days rain (only 1 all day rain)
5 countries (incl Vatican City)
4 languages (incl Swiss German)
3 currencies
2 snake encounters (+ plenty squished)
1 goat rescue
1 croissant eaten (I don't like them)
1 blister
1 pair of shoes
and.....
1 exhausted, relieved, sad but happy walker.
Regrets?.....
Zero.
Just goes to show...
"Everywhere is walking distance, if you have the time" Stephen Wright
Photos:
i/ & so it begins... 21 March
Southwark Cathedral, London
ii/ VF start marker almost lost amongst the Canterbury Cathedral restoration works
iii/ from this...
iv/ & this through northern & central France
v/ the price shock on entering Switzerland!
vi/ but oh... so worth it
vii/ beautiful Valle d'Aosta
viii/ Tuscan hilltop splendour
ix/ & those #@* hills were neverending
x/ Words cannot describe.... 20 June
Signing off from the Via Francigena,
21 March - 20 June, 2019
"The sorry relief of arrival..."
Gideon Lewis-Kraus, A Sense of Direction
2,847,786 steps
5234+ flights of stairs (frm ) = equiv ascent 2117.9 kilometres walked
93 days
84 Schengen visa days
36 degrees C, top temperature
7 days rain (only 1 all day rain)
5 countries (incl Vatican City)
4 languages (incl Swiss German)
3 currencies
2 snake encounters (+ plenty squished)
1 goat rescue
1 croissant eaten (I don't like them)
1 blister
1 pair of shoes
and.....
1 exhausted, relieved, sad but happy walker.
Regrets?.....
Zero.
Just goes to show...
"Everywhere is walking distance, if you have the time" Stephen Wright
Photos:
i/ & so it begins... 21 March
Southwark Cathedral, London
ii/ VF start marker almost lost amongst the Canterbury Cathedral restoration works
iii/ from this...
iv/ & this through northern & central France
v/ the price shock on entering Switzerland!
vi/ but oh... so worth it
vii/ beautiful Valle d'Aosta
viii/ Tuscan hilltop splendour
ix/ & those #@* hills were neverending
x/ Words cannot describe.... 20 June
Signing off from the Via Francigena,
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