Buon Natale a tutte! (Merry Christmas to all!) it is a gray Christmas morning in the northwestern suburbs of Chicago as I write this final post of the 2024 trek and since Santa has long since stopped dropping presents at this location, it is a good time for me to do so. The “runners flu”Continue reading “The Festival of Two Worlds and Don Matteo…welcome to Spoleto”
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Audible called due to “Runner’s flu” on to Spoleto
So, after a truly lovely dinner that evening I hit the sack and immediately started to shiver and shake…..damn! I had what I call the “runner’s flu” (I do not think that is an original, I had read it somewhere methinks LOL). Anyway when I have overexerted with a long hike, even though I stayContinue reading “Audible called due to “Runner’s flu” on to Spoleto”
Day 3 Trevi to Poreta and a visit to Borgo della Marmotta
So, with the bustle of activity that was the Black Celery Festival increasing, we reluctantly departed from Trevi on our way to the village of Poreta and our stay for the evening, the lovely agriturismo Borgo della Marmotta. Unfortunately we did not get any pictures of us leaving Trevi through the meandering streets of theContinue reading “Day 3 Trevi to Poreta and a visit to Borgo della Marmotta”
Trevi and the Black Celery festival….just what is a sausage celery sandwich?
Once we were settled in our rooms we went to the square for a drink and a snack (I do so like the Italian concept of an “aperitivo” which, in some ways, is conceptually similar to the English tea in that one gets together with friends late afternoon for a drink and a snack toContinue reading “Trevi and the Black Celery festival….just what is a sausage celery sandwich?”
Day 2 Foligno to Trevi and the “Black Celery” festival…who knew?
With every one now on the mend our intrepid little troupe headed east through the small city of Foligno to our ultimate goal for the day being the hilltop village of Trevi the self proclaimed “Olive Oil Capital of the World” but little did we know that we were in store for more. If IContinue reading “Day 2 Foligno to Trevi and the “Black Celery” festival…who knew?”
Day 1…A walk in the clouds for some while the jet lag bug bites for others.
For those of you who have never traveled internationally, jet lag is real and when it bites it sucks. My first time to Spain for the Camino I couldn’t sleep on the plane, for the most part due to the fact that I was excited about my trip. I tired, tossed and turned put myContinue reading “Day 1…A walk in the clouds for some while the jet lag bug bites for others.”
Arrivederci Florence, Salve Assisi and a beautiful Basilica (but no pictures please)
So after a day and a half in Florence ( I am now convinced that one needs to spend at least a week in Florence to at just begin to see what there is to see) where we visited the Duomo, Palazzo Vecchio (with the copy of the David, Neptune and a variety of otherContinue reading “Arrivederci Florence, Salve Assisi and a beautiful Basilica (but no pictures please)”
Sorry for the delay. Have been searching for my muse to no avail 🙃
Hello to one and all sorry for the delay in the next post. In the past I have always had a concept of the theme for a given hike but for some reason this time it has escaped me. So this series of blog posts will kind of operate the way I used to writeContinue reading “Sorry for the delay. Have been searching for my muse to no avail 🙃”
Last Lap in 2022 a hidden discovery in the city of Crotone
As we finished our trip to SGIF we arrived back in the City of Crotone just at the start of rush hour. By then we had spent most of the day with our driver Vincenzo Panaja, owner of Crotone taxi (www.crotonetaxi.it 39-329-614-7131 I highly recommend him) a very friendly fellow with whom we had severalContinue reading “Last Lap in 2022 a hidden discovery in the city of Crotone”
A visit to an ancestral home – San Giovanni in Fiore (part 3) Museo Demologico dell’Economia, del Lavoro e della storia Sociale
The Museum of Sila Economy, Labor and Social History depicts life in San Giovanni and the surrounding area. It was and is a life of hard work in beautiful but difficult terrain. When emigrants from SGiF arrived in the United States in West Virginia and Central Pennsylvania, they must have felt somewhat at home asContinue reading “A visit to an ancestral home – San Giovanni in Fiore (part 3) Museo Demologico dell’Economia, del Lavoro e della storia Sociale”
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