Viverone to Santhia 9/8/17
9/8/17 Wednesday
Day 13
Viverone-Santhia 17 km
Massive storm in the night followed by
heat today
Continuous lightning flashes and hail
throughout the night.
We breakfast late at the hotel on a
typical menu of cakes and fresh fruit which delays our departure.
Cross paths with the Germans.
Hillsides, flocks of pigeons. WWI
cemetery. Wet wood. Rabbit.
Picking jasmine and skipping along when
the moment is shattered; we come to a horror farm where cows are in a
filthy pen and a new-born calf has been thrust into a wheelbarrow by
an iron-faced witch-woman wielding a truncheon.
Hollow bellowing.
Profound sadness.
Walk along the canals: crops of rice,
corn and kiwifruit. Little shade.
Blister on the right foot improving
which is not the case on the wrong foot.
Able to collect keys from the Municipal
office for the lovely Ostello with welcoming volunteers.
Lunch in town is served by two Italian
women who are as bemused by us as we are by them.
ATM for smokes and scratchies!
Dogs on guard again, music and boots on
all day with therapeutic effect.
Bought a simcard in a shop where there
were many entertaining and endlessly patient customers.
Massive storm on our way to have dinner
in a ristorante with the Germans.
Shelter under a stone archway to
supersonic rumbles of thunder sounding like the Italian Air force.
10 Lunch: panini, salad and grande beer
10 Ostello
5 Lavender bags and patch
20 Simcard
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