The Big Passport Debacle
Hi everyone, Steven here. Losing a passport under normal circumstances can be traumatic but losing one while walking in the wilderness of Italy (kind of) with no fixed address is even more so. Let me tell you my sad tale. …
Category: via Francigena
Via Francigena: Dispatch #5
Lazio! We were both very excited to reach this milestone, the seventh and final region we would pass through on our pilgrimage on the via Frangicena! Leaving Tuscany and entering Lazio gave us a sense that there is light at …
Via Francigena: Dispatch #4
I didn’t quite make my goal of posting once a week, but we have not taken a rest day since we last published a post! Once you start walking it is so hard to stop! That said, we have done …
Via Francigena: Dispatch #3
We find ourselves in the foothills of the Apennine mountains with some decisions to make. We thought it would be the lack of lodging that forced us to jump forward, and that is still an issue, but the weather has …
Via Francigena: Dispatch #2
This week we finally found our pilgrim groove, staying in hostels, finally getting comfy with our packs and generally being more efficient on the trail. And then everything came to a screeching halt when I developed blister. I had a …
Via Francigena: Dispatch #1
Hello, from Italy! We are now one week into our walk on the Via Francigena and and all is going well! Even before leaving Sofia we had our eyes on the weather in the Aosta Valley and all we could …