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[QUOTE="jl, post: 642334, member: 1964"] I am hopeless at languages Camino Chris. I have a reasonable knowledge of musical Italian, and a few basic words like hello, thank you, hot etc. and that is about it! A smile is the universal language, and as a general rule pidgeon english / pidgeon italian and gestures got me through. There were a couple of situations that I really needed to explain myself better, and so got my tablet out and used good old google translate. I had the added advantage of being a solo woman, of a senior age, who had travelled from Australia to walk through their country. That also meant that suddenly, instead of having no english they had a dozen or so words, and that combined with my dozen or so meant we could usually communicate. Of course in northern Italy the language is more often than not German as it is in the Tyrol, which just adds to my confusion when I am greeting people etc. In places like the tourist offices there was generally a fluent English speaker. I quite frequently used them to find out where there might be accomodation. With just a couple of exceptions they were very helpful. I didn't mention in my last post another option - you could begin in Rome and walk towards Santiago. You don't have to get there in one go, and if you take a few years you may well be ready to go through Spain again. I met 2 lots of 2 pilgrims walking that way. There are numerous options for that route too. You could walk the VF in reverse and go around the coast and connect with the Arles route, or go across the Grand San Bernard Pass and head towards le Puy, or you could go up to Lake Constance and go down through Paris, just to name a few. Many, many options. [/QUOTE]
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