28 May to 31 August 2018
- T minus ten. How do you prepare to walk 2200 kms to Rome?
- T minus five – not all roads lead to Rome
- Day 1 – at last it’s day 1
- Day 2 – onto the North Downs Way, the horror, the horror …
- Day 3 – over the big hills of the North Downs
- Day 4 – a dreadful start to the day
- Day 5 – a really lovely day but … blisters
- Day 6 – Borstal to Harrietsham, 33Km
- Day 7 – crippled by blisters
- Day 8 – arrived in Canterbury
- Day 9 – Canterbury, the start of the Via Francigena to Rome
- Day 10 – we depart Canterbury after a final Wetherspoon breakfast
- Day 11 – we sail to France
- Day 12 – Guines, some 12Km from Calais
- Day 13 – we start to penetrate into France
- Day 14 – a night in the Abbey in Wisques
- Day 15 – Mametz
- Day 16 – On The Farm
- Day 17 – The journey continues into rural France
- Day 18 – Arras
- Day 19 – Arras rest day
- Day 20 – from Arras to Bapaume
- Day 21 – Carry on Camping in Peronne
- Day 22 – Trefcon, a rural idyll but missing two things
- Day 23 – a long 34km walk to nowhere in particular
- Day 24 – a Camino moment on the way to Laon
- Day 25 – we plod on a bit more
- Day 26 – what a difference a day makes
- Day 27 – resting in Reims
- Day 28 – first pilgrims to Rome spotted
- Day 29 – Chalons-en-Champagne, capital of Champagne
- Day 30 – A Street Called Straight
- Day 31 – the sounds of silence
- Day 32 – Stranger Things in the Other World
- Day 33 – Les Miserables
- Day 34 – oh la la, 32 degrees and the roads are melting
- Day 35 – Sunrise in the Forest
- Day 36 – Heat and Dust
- Day 37 – three nice surprises cheer us up
- Day 38 – what do you do with a town like Champlitte?
- Day 39 – Gy whizz, Pinocchio
- Day 40 – Besançon, the Jura and the Gateway to Switzerland
- Day 41 – into the Jura Mountains
- Day 42 – Pontarlia and the Buffalo Grill
- Day 43 – a grand goodbye from France; now Switzerland
- Days 44 – 47 rest days. Day 48 – Back on the Road Again
- Day 49 – Orbe to Lausanne in 32Km: a new record
- Day 50 – Five on the shores of Lake Geneva
- Day 51 – Jam today
- Day 52 – up the Rhône Valley to Martigny
- Day 53 – the climb begins
- Day 54 – higher and higher in the Alps
- Day 55 – on top of the Great St Bernard Pass
- Day 56 – Italy
- Day 57 – rest day in Aosta
- Day 58 – The Platters and a Band of Gold in the Vallee d’Aosta
- Day 59 – Into La Vallee D’Aosta Walked The 3
- Day 60 – end of La Vallee D’Aosta
- Day 61 – Piemonte
- Day 62 – a nod’s as good as a wink to a blind horse
- Day 63 – Rice at dawn
- Day 64 – Lovely days in the Po Valley
- Day 65 – insect revival
- Day 66 – We arrive in Pavia and reflect upon the Epistle of St Paul to Timothy
- Day 67 – Pavia: churches and spaghetti
- Day 68 – In Miradolo Terme
- Day 69 – The Po Ferryman
- Day 70 – Sundays in Italy
- Day 71 – into the hills to Formovo
- Day 72 – Up to the Cisa Pass
- Day 73 – Piagnaro Castle in Pontremoli tonight
- Day 74 – Today in Tuscany
- Day 75 – Tired in Sarzana
- Day 76 – …beside the seaside
- Day 77 – an old Tuscan farmhouse
- Day 78 – Walled inside Lucca
- Day 79 – a day in Lucca
- Day 80 – Feast of the Assumption
- Day 81 – a farmhouse from 1600 in San Miniato
- Day 82 – the London to Rome express thunders on
- Day 83 – San Gimignano, always a pilgrim favourite
- Day 84 – For a moment I thought we were back on the North Downs Way
- Day 85 – A Room with a View
- Day 86 – exit through the gift shop
- Day 87 – back into the Tuscan hills and cypress trees
- Day 88 – the challenge of eating properly on a Pilgrimage
- Day 89 – last day in Tuscany
- Day 90 – Pilgrims and sheep dogs. Lesson 1, don’t throw stones
- Day 91 – Monastero di San Pietro, Montefiascone
- Day 92 – autumnal Italy
- Day 93 – Nuts! Oh hazelnuts!
- Day 94 – The Pilgrim’s Progress
- Day 95 – Today La Storta, Tomorrow Rome
- Day 96 – we arrive in Rome
- Days 97 to 102 – “and this is Tim who walked all the way from Weybridge”
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