On The Way, Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Last night before falling asleep I consulted the guide to review the stage today. There is a part of the way to go on the road where it passes the normal local traffic. It is not very busy, but the stretch is pretty long and eperienza the day before, leads me to think of an alternative.
While I have breakfast I ask the owner if there is a bus service he can do in my case, that is not to walk along that stretch .... "I know eh " she says " all the pilgrims make me the same question .... unfortunately there are no buses ... but there is a man that makes the public service in his car and can lead to the point where the line ends on the main road .... well ... yesterday a party of Piedmont, were a dozen have done so! ".... The Piedmontese are ahead of me ... But the group has apparently thinning! I decide to go this way and so I do bring to the village "Battifossi" where the path is released from the main road and climb a nice way white woods.
Way immersed in the silence broken by the ticking of the shoe and Tau on the "concha . I think the paths of Santiago where everywhere you look girassi, in front or behind you, certainly in a short time would blunt the figure of a pilgrim ..... Here are just and just keep walking ..... but something happens. Shortly before
Pieve de Saddi find a person sitting on a rock reading a book ..... backpack by his side, his hat in the Australian head resting on the shoe bag and seal from "Stroller" leave no doubt: it is not the case for a tourist!
I go up in disbelief, greet and ask if it's just a pilgrim on the way ..... looks up and shows me the book ..... is the book of guidance "from here passed Francis ..... Bingo!
introduce ourselves and exchange a few words so I hear that is a Franciscan friar (Fra Luca) 70 years and she looks great, of Venetian origin (Rovigoto) missionary in Japan ..... is in Italy for a rest and is making this experience on the path created by Angela Seracchioli.
lodges and convents semimati stops along the way and then start again until next year. I envy him in a sense .... I must think about every day to call on the right and left with the anguish and the hope of finding a hole for the night ....! We said goodbye and promised to reincontarci again on the move.
Shortly after arriving at Pieve de Saddi, whose origins are lost in the mists of time. As early as the third century after Christ was a meeting place for early Christians of the upper valley of the Tiber.
The structure is completely new set-up ..... sin is closed because it would be an ideal resting point for pilgrims on their way.
Inside the church houses the famous "rib of the Dragon" which will surely attract many pilgrims in the past ..... more likely it is a fossil of dinosaur bone or so.
start driving along the road becomes paved and continues in the middle of the woods. I stop for a bite to eat in a pitch used by loggers, there are piles of logs ready to be taken away by tractors. By mid-afternoon arrival at the hotel accommodation and take Pietralunga Tench .... I have no alternative if I want to stay in the country.
Pietralunga is a delightful old perched on a hill located in the valley, embraced all around the fortress that Lombard is the symbol of that country.
While I'm doing the food shopping for tomorrow's stage, it started to rain ..... takes me a bit 'of despair! Ceno
pizzeria in the hotel's friendly manager, Mr. Tench, shows me and chat with two women who are sitting at the table next to mine. The more "information" of the two makes me: " do not worry because the forecasts say it will rain until 5 in the morning and then it will be sunny all day and for days afterwards " ..... he was right all night it rained, hard, and even then about five o'clock in the morning everything became quiet and when I wake up around seven bright sunshine illuminated the valley.
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