Hi @Sanman
Two very recent threads you might find interesting..... though you will realise soon you are spoilt for choice
https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/via-ellenica-italy-summary.87221/
https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/cammino-retico.87214/
We don't know...
I remember the day I arrived, a long time ago now in 2016 ,Casa Benigno was "closed" (on a Sunday) but I had contacted them in advance and they could not have been more helpful. I remember a huge amount of "solid" food! It was retro then, so it must be even more retro now. ;)
Buen camino. Tim
@Undermanager Just to reiterate thanks for the effort and time you generously put into your reports, always informative and laced with humour and common sense!
They really do help other people with planning, and allow others to share the experience and the enjoyment. Tim
The Via Postumia passes from Genoa over through Piacenza (on the VF) and on to Eastern Europe. I guess it is more of a route to Santiago from Eastern Europe. I have pictures somewhere of 'arrows' outside the Basilica in Budapest which pointed you there. But from Genoa to connect with the VF...
As they used to say when I lived in Nigeria....."I jealous you too much!"
Rome I would happily live in henceforth and forever. I lived there 1991-1995.
I kind of live outside London atm but actually am at ancestral home in Liverpool with domestic duties for past 3+ years.
This is a bit off topic, but over 25 years ago I visited Seattle and my sister then living there had a ticket for a tour of the Starbucks factory, and guided coffee tasting, purchased at a fundraising auction for the children's school.
And off we went.
It was not a regular thing you could buy...
Look!
I cannot resist. Ordered on amazon.it on 6 June In Liverpool on 8 June. Postage €3.85. Cannot complain. Even after (whisper...) Brexit.
It is a walloping great book, 300pp. See mug for scale.
The Ignaciano is magnificent! I did it in November. You are unlikely to meet anyone, but if you do, it will most likely be a group of 20 or so alumni of a Jesuit Highschool in the States!! Or indeed a group of Jesuits.
Sailing to Genoa sounds wonderful - I was last there hitchhiikng in 1975...
Serendipity. Thanks to @henrythedog @Kirkie @Camino Chrissy
@Camino Chrissy Just the other day I came across some old posts we shared about the Poor Clares and their going away from Medina del Rioseco on the Camino de Madrid, where they had been since 1492. You brought back memories of Poor...
I well remember on my first camino being in Portomarín on 27 May 2009, demurely locked inside the municipal by 10pm, in stifling heat, hearing outside a happy crowd cheering on Barça to beat ManU 2-0 in the Champions League final. The celebrations went on for a l-o-n-g time. Being from...
I have always liked the Terre di Mezzo guides which I used initially in Italian. Good to see that they continue to work on English versions. Long ago (well in 2018) they had the guide to the second half of Francigena as an interactive app, (not just a pdf), but they abandoned that as an idea...
I made some enquiries about travelling from Cyprus to Israel by sea a couple of years ago which were not encouraging. No regular ferry.
There was the 'possibiity' of finding a cruise ship, but that seems highly unlikely now. And I guess would be expensive.
There was also discussion on...
Hello @andonius
Very interesting.
I had hoped to get to Jerusalem in 2020 but the coming of the pandemic and some more domestic complications have interrupted that. And now I am 70.
I walked from Canterbury to Rome then to Brinidisi and eventually Santa Maria di Leuca.
As you say the exact...
@ivar
I remember in 2009 Ivar's 'office' was on the right as you came towards the Cathedral on 'final approach'. The Camino Travel Centre? I posted on some 'stuff' there and also Ivar booked me into the 25 Julio hotel in SdC - I didn't know the significance of the date at that time - and also a...
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