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. …
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 …
Let’s Go for a Walk – The Via Francigena
During our last few days in Greece, much of our time was spent preparing for our upcoming pilgrimage on the Via Francigena in Italy. Last fall we found a storage facility in Sofia, Bulgaria for Bijou, so we began making …
Corinth and Athens
Steven here, taking the reins while Linda takes a break. With just a couple of weeks left in Greece, we decided to focus our attention on two major destinations: Corinth and Athens. We were the only ones at the camperstop …
Peloponnes – Part 2
We left Kalamata on a gloriously sunny day and headed to our next stop, Gytheio, on the Mani Peninsula. We had two routes from which to choose, south along the coast or northeast around the Taygetus mountain range, then southward …
The Peninsulas of the Peloponnese
As suggested by the title of this post, I am going to give you a brief geography lesson of the Peloponnese. (If nothing else, we learn a ton of geography in our travels.) The Peloponnese is a peninsula, naturally attached …