Days 50 & 51 – Cerviolo to Verzino, Italy – 70km
In the spring, when I spoke with Italians about my plans for the six months of walking, up and down across the peninsula, the responses were nearly all encouraging, enthusiastic, and constructive. But there was one message that slipped through that was more concerning. Watch out for the people in Calabria, several said. All of […]
Day 49 – Rossano to Cerviolo, Italy – 58km
There were two big pieces. Two of them. I had confidently turned into the bakery, pleased with my pace, and assured that a plan was indeed coming together. I hadn’t just left Rossano in darkness; it was one of my earliest departures of the trip, straight into the maws of a persistent rain that just […]
Day 48 – Acri to Rossano, Italy – 45km
One of the funny things about a walk is that it can go 98% according to plan, predictable as can be, and yet it’s the two percent that determines the outcome of the day. I slipped out of the agriturismo before 6am, as planned, hoping to carve out as much time as possible in Rossano […]
Days 46 & 47 – Civita to Acri, Italy – 69km
After a high-level mountain crossing, these two days brought me down to sea level and then back through more gentle hills. They also immersed me in a land rich with layers of religious tradition, extending the Italo-Albanian focus in Civita and the cult of Marian worship further north, adding another strand to the Basilian presence […]