I’ve been planning this pilgrimage ‎for four years, and making serious preparations for the last two. I use everything in my pack, if not on a daily basis, then at least weekly. I’ve even been able to help some of my fellow pilgrims out […]

Tuesday evening over dinner, Michael and I had  negotiated a nine o’clock start time. It was half past when we closed the door of the pilgrim’s hostel in Piacenza behind us and got underway. Well actually, we walked about 50 m back the way […]

To date, all but two of the pilgrims I’ve spoken with have been foreigners: Germans, Swiss, and English. (Well, there were six Italian women I met on the street, but our conversation lasted all of a minute.) The thing which I find most peculiar […]

‎Today Michael and I decided to save about 5 kms of walking by following a rural road directly from Santa Cristina to our next destination, Orio Litta. Because we started early on a Sunday morning, we met very little traffic on the way. We […]

‎The past few walking days have seen me cover a lot of distance. Tomorrow instead of pressing on directly to Piacenza from Santa Cristina (about 40 kms), Michael and I will be stopping halfway at the parish accommodations in Orio Litto.‎ While we have […]