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[partypilgrim]

Hi

My name is Ben. Im a 29yr old Australian who loves to travel. I completed the Camino De Santiago in September 2005 and loved it.

I am now on to my next challenge. For those of you who have completed the Santiago pilgrimage, this could be for you The Via Francegina follows the old Roman road from Canterbury to Rome. There is hardly any support network but the experience is amazing.

You can follow my pilgrimage at http://www.partypilgrims.blogspot.com.

And if there is anyone out there who would like to join me for part of my journey you are more than welcome.

Cheers

Ben

 

[Minkey]

Woo! Good lucky matey, that's gonna be one long journey!

 

[sillydoll]

Via Francigena

Ciao Ben,
I walked about 700kms of the VF from Vevey on Lake Lausanne to Roma last year. (We missed out the 'meseta' of the VF - the flat Po Valley plains between Ivrea and Parma).
I downloaded Italian daily guides and translated them using Google - with hilarious results! There were five of us (average age 55) so we shared out the daily guides and maps. We also used the maps from an Italian Guide Book.
In spite of many warnings that the Via F is for pioneers with few waymarks, and that everyone gets lost - we didn't get lost even once!
You can read about our journey here:

http://www.vfpilgrims.blogspot.com

William Marques, member of this Forum, started a VF Forum a couple of years ago. If you haven't visited it yet, you will find quite a lot of advice in the Files and Data pages.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/via-francigena

There is also a VF confraternity in England:

http://www.pilgrimstorome.org.uk

Have a wonderful walk!!

 

[William Marques]

If that is Ben Dale. Hi.

I can't get your link to work. (It's OK now).

Ben was at our Confraternity of Pilgrims to Rome meeting in May and was going to go via Amsterdam. Did it happen that way? (Looking at the blog I see you went the normal route)

You may bump into Bron and I as we will be on the Italian section next month.

Buren Romeria

 

[partypilgrim]

Hi guys

thanks for the welcome..

and yes it is ben dale.

i ended up doing a vipissana retreat instead of the amsterdam thing until dan arrived. so we did end up going the normal way.

i will probably be arriving in rome around the 15th. if u catch me that would be cool because dan is now lounging on the beach in split and i am on my own

 

[partypilgrim]

and...

keep your eyes out for these guys as well

http://pilgrimagepublications.blogspot.com/

they should be in italy around the start of august as well.

 

[William Marques]

Paul and Babette were also at May's meeting and we are hoping to bump into them as they are going quite slowly because of their guide writing task.

Have a safe journey and leave some beer for us.