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🇮🇹 Via Francigena (Canterbury to Rome)
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[QUOTE="sillydoll, post: 400299, member: 8"] Many of the early VF pilgrims had similar experiences and in 2005 when we were planning to walk from Switzerland we decided to book all of our accommodation ahead. It was a toss up between spontaneity and a bed for the night. Walking with 5 middle-aged women, sleeping in a park and arm-wrestling each other for the park bench wasn't an option! 11 years ago, there were no English guide books, no GPS or Apps, and only one of us had a cell phone. Finding our way was a challenge - the biggest challenge (second only to finding a bed) was getting lost, and nearly every pilgrim grumbled about getting lost. The maps we bought from the AIVF were very pretty but almost useless as far as mileages were concerned. 23 km days were often 32 km and there were many days when 28 km became 38 km. On those occasions it was a great comfort to know that even if you had to walk an extra 10 km was a bed and a hot shower waiting for you at the end of a protracted trek under a 40oC Tuscan sky. People get all misty-eyed when they ask what it was like to walk the VF 10 years ago. They mostly have the mistaken idea that we ambled along lonely, not-before trodden paths finding our own way between remote villages. It was more like BobM has described his walk in France. Terrifying stretches on highways, long periods with no signs, expensive hotels and the VF pilgrimage hardly known. I reckon that the Camino Frances was pretty much the same in the 1980's. [/QUOTE]
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