Month: March 2017

A WynChar Camino favorite since 2013.

The baristas here get fancy a lot. Here they used chocolate as paint. 

Rainy day leaving Pavia.But not cold. Note the green Via arrows. The Via signage was great going out of Pavia but then got much worse once we were outside the city’s influence.

Charlie in rain coat and rain skirt at a playground. European playgrounds still have teeter-tottors, this one is a two seater. Americans playground have them only on the signs which seems to be the US symbol for playground even though no playground has them any more.

We walked 10.25 miles from Pavia to Belgioioso. They say pav-EE-a rather than PAV-ee-a as we had been saying. (Written Italian, unlike Spanish, does not consistently indicate which syllables are stressed.) 

The walk reminded us of the Camino in Spain, going through fields and small villages. The villages are in some disrepair but not quite as much as in Spain. 

We walked mostly on pavement, small roads with little traffic. Pretty fields, lots of new grass and spring flowers. Today’s walk was quite flat. We are building up for mountains a few days from now.

We were excited when we saw our first Via arrow.  The arrows on the Via are green, versus yellow on the Camino. 

The WiFi non funziona in our hotel tonight so we can’t upload any photos that we took today. Will add photos when we can. 

Before desert and coffee, we had lots of vegetables and chicken and mushroom lasagna, excellent. Italian coffee is as good as ever, which is very, very good.

Video screen at passport control in Heathrow Airport. We assume it is an ironic reference.