Good news - last week one of my little toe-nails (which has been absent for the last 2 or 3 months since it came off the 2nd time) grew back! Unfortunately I was completely unaware of its' return until I felt a nasty pain in the toe next to it and removed my sock at the end of the day to find it had dug a bloody hole into it. But obviously, I am very happy to welcome back a toe-nail after all this time. In other news - I am in Padua, a city 45km from Venice and ...

After adding up my kms a few days ago my calculations said about 2000km. My body said 'a break please?' and i said 'sounds good to me'. So with warning signs of a painful hip and knee, a general weariness all the time and 42°C heat at lunch times I have come to the lakes for a well earned rest. I had a little taster of lakeside life when took the train upto Lake Como to meet up with Idl again. Along with a few hundred swing dancers in town for the weekend! It wa...

Wow (rhymes very well with Ciao!) I have neglected my blog duties a bit - I would apologise but I have been busy walking, sweating, learning Italian ways, sweating, fighting off mosquitoes, sweating and being a bit of a tourist! As you may be able to tell, coming down from the mountains and onto the plains of northern Italy I walked into full blown summer. It's 32°C in the afternoon and my wonderfully english body is fairly useless in this situation. Hence the...

I arrived in Italy today, on foot, as usual. That is all. Grazie! And i know i haven't written anything since but it's coming I promise . . . .