Tag Archives: rain
A Pheasant Day for a Walk
Yesterday morning we set off again from Coiano—after sleep much disturbed by a soccer match apparently so thrilling that it had to be followed by a block party with pounding music at high volume till the wee hours of the … Continue reading
Italian Rain is Just as Wet as German Rain
Last night we had a powwow and this morning we made the final executive decision to skip ahead a day on our schedule. Looking to our planned route we realized, from our errors in the Alps, that we had not … Continue reading
Walking in the Clouds
Your prayers and good wishes worked, because today was much better than yesterday. It probably didn’t hurt that we got 8½ hours of sleep, too, in the serene quiet of the cloister. Even the passionately mooing cows quieted down overnight. … Continue reading
Photos, Day 9, Bamberg-Forchheim
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Hail Mary, Full of Grays
Maybe we should have named this blog “Here I Weather.” I wish I had more interesting historical items to report from our walk, but the rain is dominating our experience. I think I’ve run out of all the standard adjectives to describe precipitation at this point, so forgive me if I become repetitive. But when you’re walking in it all day it’s hard to think of anything else. Continue reading
We Made It through Week One!
We awoke to a Zapfendorf morning in our tired little Gasthof and enjoyed another typical German breakfast—bread, ham, cheese, jelly, and this time a bonus boiled egg apiece—before hitting the road again. I felt more energetic than I had in … Continue reading
Don’t Say “Downpour” Till You Really Mean It
Our first stop on the way out of the Gasthof this morning was the church of the Fourteen Saints, named for 14 assorted saints who appeared, as children, with the infant Jesus to a shepherd in the field right in … Continue reading






















