Category: Italy 2019
Day 9: Bolsena to Orvieto
This was the last day, with the longest walk, and we wanted to have as much time as possible in Orvieto; so we were out the door at 8:30 and walking through the town,...
Day 8: San Quirico to Bolsena
We left Quirky Town with only an adequate breakfast, but it was nice to get out into the countryside. We were moving towards the border between Tuscany and Lazio, and the dark tufa country...
Day 7: Quirky Town
We are staying in what we are styling “Quirky Town”, after a short (8 km) walk this afternoon. We took the advice in our book and spent the morning exploring Sorano, especially the Orsini...
Day 6: to Sorano, uphill!
This afternoon we sat in our room, high up above Sorano in the fortress, and watched a violent storm lash the medieval town. It has been that kind of day, filled with unusual discoveries...
Italia 2019: Day 5, Into the Via Cava
Getting ready for a walk is always the same: switching around the bags, laying out boots, poles and clothes, but if it’s going to be a good walk, nothing beats the point sometime in...
Italia 2019: Day 4, welcome to Pitigliano
The trip here was a bit crackers – our driver, whose name escapes me, claimed to be fluent in Japanese and had very limited English. His Mercedes wagon had a GPS that seemed more...
Italia 2019: Day 3 and a flying visit to Florence
As it turned out, we might have been better getting the agency to pick us up from Siena, because it’s closer to Pitigliano than Florence. It was lovely, however, to reacquaint ourselves with the...
Italia 2019: Day 2, and we walk our legs off seeing the city
We knew we had very little time in Siena, because the focus on this trip is the walk in the Tuscan Hills; but there was no way we were not going to see as...
Italia 2019: It’s Day One and we survive a bum-numbing trip across the world
It’s a wonder that we keep doing this to ourselves, and after more than a decade of economy travelling. Both of us suffering post-Term 3 stress and faced with a 14-leg followed by a...