Predominantly a bland day heading along the VF mostly in the right direction. A mid morning diversion to a supermarket added a few hundred metres, but the provisioning opportunity was well worth it.
However, the blandness of the day’s journey was to lull us, so that arriving in Terracina was all the more impactful. Another Roman town that I’ve never heard of (I don’t recall it being mentioned anywhere in Gibbon’s Decline and fall of the Roman empire!), what makes it stand out is that the town’s central square is the Roman central square, complete with original pavers, a section of the via Appia, and remnants of a theatre and other buildings. Very cool!
And to top it off, it’s a seaside town, so what better way to cool the aching bones than a dip in the Med?
Sam wading out to where the Med becomes waist deep – about 100m from the beach!Church of the Souls of Purgatory. Going for intimidation rather than inspiration with full on skulls and bones at this one
In 2009, we embarked on a one-year family sailing adventure aboard a Grand Soleil 39, "SV Mulan". Our original sailing blog is linked on this site.
In 2017, Susan, Andrew, Sam & Max walked the Camino Frances from St-Jean-Pied-de-Porte to Santiago de Compostella (and rode bikes from Burgos to Leon as a blister recovery strategy), and in 2018 Jack also joined the crew as we waled the northern section of the Camino Portuguese from Porto to S de C.
In 2019 Andrew, accompanied by Max for the first few hundred kms, and Susan for the Tiscan section, walked the via francigena from Canterbury to Rome. That journey is blogged in this site.
This blog is planned as an alternative to the endless instagram posts used previously to communicate with those interested in our travels - although there is a linked instagram account as well!
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