Category: Via Francigena
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Day 68: Camaiore to Lucca
Song of the Day: Leaves that are Green — Simon and Garfunkel “I was 21 years when I wrote this song / I’m 22 now but I won’t be for long / Time hurries on, and the leaves that are green turn to brown / And they wither with the wind / And they crumble…
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Day 67: Massa to Camaiore
Song of the Day: Amor Fati — Washed Out “Design, you’ve got / The life to guide / Your faith decides / The world’s your goal to find” Walking high in the hills, feeling like I was the only one on earth, and this song suddenly seemed to come to me. To be honest, I…
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Day 66: Sarzana to Massa
Song of the Day: The Passenger — Iggy Pop “I am a passenger / And I ride and I ride / I ride through the city’s backsides / I see the stars come out of the sky / Yeah, they’re bright in a hollow sky / You know it looks so good tonight” I mostly…
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Day 65: Aulla to Sarzana
Song of the Day: October — Broken Bells “Remember what they say, there’s no shortcut to a dream / It’s all blood and sweat / And life is what you manage in between” I have been yearning for proper fall weather since I left the mountains — the Alps, that is. Today’s cool and misty…
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Day 64: Pontremoli to Aulla
Song of the Day: Walking in Rhythm — The Blackbyrds “Walking in rhythm, moving in sound / humming to the music, tryna move on / I’m walking in rhythm, singing my song / Thinking bout my baby, trying to get home…It’s been so long since I’ve seen her / I’m tired and so all alone…
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Day 63: Passo della Cisa to Pontremoli
Song of the Day: Mountains Beyond Mountains — Arcade Fire “Sometimes I wonder if the world’s so small / That we can never get away from the sprawl / Living in the sprawl / Dead shopping malls rise like mountains beyond mountains / And there’s no end in sight / I need the darkness, someone…
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Day 62: Cassio to Passo della Cisa
Song of the Day: Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let it Roll) — George Harrison “Let it roll across the floor / Through the hall and out the door / To the fountain of perpetual mirth / Let it roll for all it’s worth” This may well be my favorite George Harrison song — it’s…
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Day 61: Fornovo di Taro to Cassio
Song of the Day: Beautiful Day — U2 “You’re on the road / but you’ve got to destination / You’re in the mud / In the maze of her imagination… It’s a beautiful day / don’t let it get away” While it was a difficult day, today also was a beautiful day. Properly in the…
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Day 60: Piacenza to Fornovo di Taro
Song of the Day: Back on the Chain Gang — Pretenders “I found a picture of you / those were the happiest days of my life” A great song, and one I used to listen to a lot towards the end of my time in Boston. And felt appropriate as I marched onward across Italy,…
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Day 59: Piacenza
Song of the Day: Okay Okay — Pino D’Angio “Okay, okay, se non ti va / Io sono qui, tu balli là…” Italo disco is everywhere! I associated this song with this time of year anyway — right when I moved to Rome and was living by St. Peter’s, I would often bike up and…
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