• Day 24: Celle di San Vito to Troia

    April 19 in Italy ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C

    What a different a day makes. The Way today (18.28 km) was warm, a little muddy (the sticky kind that will not let your pole go) and very pleasant. I have moved from Campania to Puglia. There were two creek crossings (boots on), the first was not officially on the path, as I was taking a tractor trail to make up for missing a turn, and, I saw a brown fox and two wild boars that were running up a hillside so quickly - I now know I'll never be able to outrun one - they then crossed the road ahead of me! The best news is that I did not have one scary dog encounter! That didn't stop me from being hyper vigilant; I'm going to work on letting that tension ease. I met up with Maria and John, the Irish pilgrims, after I'd washed my clothes and myself and we are going to have dinner together tonight.Read more