2012 Via Francigena Part 1 Canterbury to Lausanne

The travel day : thoughts about why I want to be a pilgrim again.June 30-July 1st 2012Writing with jet-lag to an audience of more than just Gord is never a good idea. So no great expectation of wit please. The trip was one of our quickest yet, arriving at Canterbury Cathedral 14 hours after leaving Vancouver. We splurged and hired a drive right from the ...

Gord and I have air tickets purchased and Alison Raju's new guidebook hot off the press. Our planning for the Via Francigena is now offically under way. We fly into Gatwick on July 1, 2012  and we are booked into to the Canterbury Cathedral Lodge right in the Cathedral grounds for our first night.This year we will  do about half of the route to Rome ending somewhere in ...