Day: April 12, 2017

If you zoom in, you might be able to read that the note says Emma was born on March 8. We’ve seen two of these now. Must be to announce a new baby in the home.

We stopped for coffee in Cappanori on walk yesterday from Lucca to Altopascio. This large sign was in the coffee bar. It means Coffee should be hot as hell, black as the devil, pure as an angel and sweet as love.

The VF has at least three generations of signage and I have seen a dozen or more kinds of markers. Here are a few of them on one post.

At the beginning the signage was minimal, just at places you have a choice and sometimes not even then. Since we got into Tuscany we are getting many more signs. What you want are clear signs at the choice points and frequent “yes don’t worry, you are still on the VF” signs. On the Camino the yellow arrows do this. On the VF this is done with the white over red stickers, second from the top above. Basically a bumper sticker, it can go on vertical posts or any surface. They give you reassurance you didn’t miss a turn.

We haven’t said too much about dogs. When we go by houses, which we do a lot on the VF, we often have a dog barking at us. After we got this photo the dog got up and started barking at us.

With a tiny fountain in the center.

You see these a lot on the Camino but this is the first one we’ve seen on the VF. A 74 year old Belgian pilgrim died here in 2015. 

In this part of the VF one direction goes to Rome or you can go the other direction, past Pavia, where we started, over west to St. Jean and on to Santiago.

We passed this at the top of a long climb yesterday. Very pretty. Looks like it is full.