Tag: Italy
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Open Water: Sailing Sicily to Sardinia
Alas, I’ve only just restarted the blog and I am already behind again. I’ve had a very busy summer, what can I say! Song of the trip: Harvest Moon – Neil Young, to memorialize some of the craziest moons I have ever seen Sapore di Sale — Gino Paoli. You can’t go to the sea…
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Day 88: La Storta to Rome
Song of the Day: Gloria — Umberto Tozzi “Gloria (Gloria) / Chiesa di campagna (Gloria) / Acqua nel deserto (Gloria) / Lascio aperto il cuore (Gloria)” This is a song that I have long associated with Rome — it was the first song I listened to on the cab ride in from Fiumicino when I…
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Day 87: Campagnano di Roma to La Storta
Song of the Day: This is the Day — The The “This is the day, your life will surely change / This is the day, when things fall into place…You could have done anything, if you wanted / And all your friends and family think that you’re lucky / But there side of you they’ll…
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Day 86: Sutri to Campagnano di Roma
Song of the Day: Rome — Phoenix “Rome, Rome, Rome, Rome / Focus, looking forward, the Coliseum…Always and forever more / And together getting lonely / Ithought I couldn’t do this without you / Single in his bed somewhere / Ashes still it fall, fall, falls” I am very much in the greater Rome fallout…
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Day 85: Vetralla to Sutri
Song of the Day: You Never Give Me Your Money / Sun King – The Beatles It’s not cheating to choose multiple songs if they were recorded as part of a medley…just saying. As I come into these final days of this walk, I’ve been thinking about how I can possibly sum up the rich…
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Day 84: Viterbo to Vetralla
Song of the Day: Everybody’s Talking — Harry Nilsson “I’m going where the sun keeps shining / Through the pouring rain / Going where the weather suits my clothes / Banking off of the northeast winds / Sailing on a summer breeze / Skipping over the ocean like a stone” Did you know Harry Nilsson…
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Day 83: Montefiascone to Viterbo
Song of the Day: Mess is Mine — Vance Joy This is a song with a special connection to this area for me. After I graduated college I spent some time traveling on my own in Italy, and came to Viterbo for a week. I ended up befriending my Airbnb host, Alberto, who was only…
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Day 82: Bolsena to Montefiascone
Song of the Day: There She Goes – The La’s ”There she goes, there she goes again / Racing through my rain / And I just can’t contain / This feeling that remains” While this song will always be associated with The Parent Trap, it’s also a great travel song — and a great walking…
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Day 81: Acquapendente to Bolsena
Song of the Day: Right Down the Line – Gerry RaffertyCaught myself singing this as I walked into the wind today — not much more here in terms of deeper meaning. I went to bed last night having been reminded both by my dinner mates as well as by Sergio and Domenico that rain was…
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Day 80: Radicofani to Acquapendente
Song of the Day: Ventura Highway — America ”Chewing on a piece of grass, walking down the road / Tell me, hoe long you gonna stay here, Joe? …Cause the free wind is blowing through your hair / And the days surround your daylight there / Seasons crying no despair / Alligator lizards in the…
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Eva on the Via Francigena (and beyond) 