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Walking through the century old oak forest | Day 8 of Via Francigena from San Gimignano to Quartaia
It was the 8th day of Via Francigena trail when we hiked around 17 kms from the town San Gimignano to Quartaia. We met another sunny morning in Tuscany this time at the campsite Boschetto Di Piema. We had a bit disturbing night with the dogs that were barking all night. But overall we liked the location of the campsite and the view from it right on the town San Gimignano. Yesterday we were curious to learn more information about this old medieval town and it turned out that in this town of seven towers how they call it were filmed some movies. In one of them called “Miracles can…
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Discovering the most beautiful medieval town of Italy – San Gimignano | Day 7 of Via Francigena
It was the 7th day of Via Francigena trail when we hiked around 15 kms from Gambassi Terme to the town San Gimignano. We had another quiet night in the Toscanian fields between the vineyards and the only thing that we heard were the sounds of some deers from the closest little forest. But they didn’t really approached us and we haven’t seen them close. We had our delicious oats for breakfast and were good to start the trail. We knew that this is going to be a shorter day because we wanted to stop at the nearest campsite – first that we met in several days and it was…
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Fall in love with authentic landscapes of Tuscany | Day 6 of Via Francigena from Calenzano to Gambassi Terme
It was the 6th day of Via Francigena trail when we hiked around 20 kms from Calenzano to the town Gambassi Terme. We had a very quiet and calm night in the fields of Tuscany, it was our 3rd night wild camping and it was the most quiet. Also because we were at the place several hours before the dusk it helped us to rest better. Feeling refreshed and energized having had our breakfast we were out on the trail. We planned to do 17 kms to the next major village Gambassi Terme that day and we saw on the map that the route was going through the small paths…
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The access is forbidden to the fields of Tuscany, Italy?? | Day 5 of Via Francigena from Fucecchio to Calenzano
It was the 5th day of Via Francigena trail when we hiked around 18 kms from the town Fucecchio to the village Calenzano. That night was really disturbing partly because we had a fear of somebody’s chasing us away partly because there were a lot of noises coming from the nearest car roads, dogs barking everywhere and even some loud music from the discos. Also we heard the shot guns of probably some hunters and it was really scary and strange that they were hunting at night. Not to say that the thought of who they were hunting for was terryfing as well because we were seeing lots of baby…
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Tips, advice and our experience with Via Francigena | Things important to know
In this post we are going to share with you our tips and tricks that we were able to come up with while doing the Via Francigena. Also our main impressions about this trail and some advice that may come in handy before you start. We are going to share what season is the best to hike it, what accommodation to choose, the weather patterns you can meet, whether it is possible to wild camp and all the difficulties and highlights of this trail. Hope that you´ll find some useful information here. And before we start we wanted to remind some of you that may not know what is the…
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Old pilgrim ways don’t exist anymore? | Day 4 of Via Francigena from Altopascio to Fucecchio
Several days before… The last two days we had the time out of the trail because we needed to get some shopping done and also because we felt like we needed a break from that heat. So the first day we went from campsite in Torre Daniele to Ivrea – the closest biggest town where there was a Decathlon sports goods store. Our shoes were already tearing apart especially after challenging mountain hike we did recently and it has been a year since we changed them. So we thought it was a good moment to buy a new pair. Fortunately we found the shoes quite easily in the trail running…
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Hiking through medieval villages and castle Forte di Bard | Day 3 of Via Francigena from Arnad to Pont Saint Martin
It was the third day of Via Francigena trail when we hiked around 20 kms from the village Arnad to Pont Saint Martin. We had a very quiet and calm night in the secluded forest place that we found yesterday. Luckily nobody came up to disturb us and that because of the camp spot we chose was not possible to see even up close. We slept for 8 hours straight and with fresh powers were ready to hit the trail. It was very hot and kind of stuffy at night and we slept almost without any clothes and were not using sleeping bags. Having had our breakfast and wrapped everything…
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The hottest day hiking the Ligurian seacoast in Italy | Day 1 from Sestri Levante to Moneglia
We started the Cinque Terre hike when we decided to interrupt our Via Francigena and get closer to the coast. We had very hot days lately so we felt like getting closer to the coast may help a bit and also we wanted to have a variety of hiking experience in Italy discovering different parts of it. So we booked a Bla Bla Car to pick us up from the lake Viverone where we were staying for couple of days to Genova from where we wanted to take a train further along the coast to the town Sestri Levante. We were lucky because someone was going in the direction we…
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Walking in the land of the beautiful roman castles | Day 2 of Via Francigena from Saint Vicent to Verres
We woke up at a quiet campsite that we found yesterday and we had it all to ourselves. Yesterday night there was a thunderstorm that disturbed our sleep quite a lot and so we couldn’t felt asleep at time. Because of that we got up one hour later than we planned and started the day a bit late. The start of the day was sunny and warm and was very similar to the previous one. The air was more fresh and cool after the rain and it was a great sensation. We went down to the town Saint Vicent and bought two cherry ice creams to have something sweet after…
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ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW about HIKING and TRAVELLING in DOLOMITES | Best trails, weather, public transport
In this post we are willing to share with you all our impressions and experience after hiking and travelling in Dolomites for 3 weeks. We are going to tell you all of our impressions and conclusions we made, some advice that we find very important, the reality of the weather and hiking conditions as well as some of our favorite hikes. Hope that you can learn something new from it. Location and language First of all, Dolomites are located in the South Tyrol where most part of the population speaks in German and it’s not a surprise because it shares the border with Austria. Only After the first World War…
