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Hi @CaminoDebrita ! Likewise, I'll look at my atlas to see your whereabouts, in awe! Wow!@domigee --What a wonderful adventure you are undertaking! I'm glad you shared it with us. I was just remembering today flying into Bangkok in the mid nineties, and backpacking all over SE Asia. We hiked, climbed into active volcanoes in Indonesia, walked the DMZ from Laos into Vietnam, and spent time in a hill tribe in N. Thailand. Then, we travelled into P Penh from Ho Chi Minh City, and settled on the southern coast of Cambodia, then Phnom Penh. We lived in Cambodia for eight years.
Europe is so easy in comparison, but it is also so rich in culture and history, and often the climate is so much easier than SE Asia was. I am going to go look at a map, and try to figure out what your route will be!
I really am so grateful for my travels, and I am glad to know of yours too.
Buen Camino.
Hi @CaminoDebrita ! Likewise, I'll look at my atlas to see your whereabouts, in awe! Wow!
Nothing that exotic or demanding for me, it's the Via Francigena, should be called the Via Sigeric really. It goes from Canterbury (Uk) to Rome.
Walked the first part of it 3 years ago, now catching up with the rest (before I'm too old) .
Thank you for your good wishes.
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Hi Doogman,Have a wonderful journey and let us know how it goes. I will be starting the Via Francigena at Canterbury in July, but I will only have enough time to get as far as Arras. For next year, I am thinking about doing some of the Italian sections, so any information that you can pass along will be gratefully received. Buen Camino, Bon Chemin, plus whatever the Italian equivalent might be!
Hi Doogman,
Thank you and all the best for your journey, too.
Unless things have changed since 2014, it was often quite difficult to find food or places to eat on the French section of the VF. When you book accommodation, I recommend you ask if they can provide a meal or if there is a place to eat or a supermarket locally. Also make sure they know you are on foot or they may send you to a place many kilometres away!
Should you run out of water, there is always a tap with drinkable water in ...cemetaries, of all places!
I loved Arras btw , had a lovely meal at 'Le Bureau'
From what I've read, you've done the hard (and less interesting) bit so the rest should be wonderful!
Are you using a paper guidebook or relying on online information? There seems to be some very complete info online. I currently have the Lightfoot and Cicerone guides from the library - the Lightfoot especially has good maps, but they are OH SO big and heavy!
I know people who brag about never having left their county!What are they thinking? It's like going to the grocery store and walking all the aisles then getting the same box of crackers and cheese-whiz, every day, for the rest of your life.
As you know, the upside of that is that you have been able to GO!I have to be back at a set time.
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