It’s been a long three years since we put on our walking shoes in Europe. Our route starting September 2022 will be the Italian section of the Via Francigena from Milan to Rome. The VF is even more ancient than the Camino de Santiago and as the map above shows, traditionally took pilgrims from Canterbury, England and France over the Alps and down the Italian peninsula to Rome. On the map, you can find our starting point between Aosta and Piacenza.

Back in 2019 our last Camino ended in Santiago de Campostela, Spain after we walked the Camino del Norte. Our first Camino — when we caught the “Camino bug” — was 2015 when we walked the traditional Camino “Frances” (the “French way”) from St Jean Pied-du-Port in France, over the Pyrenees and westward across Spain. In 2016 we walked the Camino of St Francis from Florence through the Appenines to La Verna and Assisi to Rome.

Our third Camino, in 2017, was the Camino Portugues, starting in Lisbon and going north to Santiago. In 2018 we did the first half of the Camino del Norte, which follows Spain’s north coast along the Bay of Biscay. Our starting point was Lourdes in France. In 2019, the second half began in Santander and ended in Santiago de Campostela.

We are excited to resume our meditative walking and curious to see how we adapt to the realities of the post-covid world. Stay tuned for occasional blogs from the path.

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If you are curious about our previous caminos, look through the Monthly Archives. And if you see the post called Ups and Downs in Asturias from Soto de Luina, it dates from September 2019 and I haven’t figured out how to get it to appear in its proper date order. (I have subsequently deleted that post.)