Via di Francesco

I will be going on a 3 to 4 week trek through Central Italy following St. Francis path. I will be following the path going northwards starting in Rome.

Any tips?

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Seems like it will be faster by car

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Italy is great by car going on smaller roads, strada statale, but I want to walk the country side and enjoy the hiking bit. There's less people there than in Camino de Santiago too.

      Keep yourself hydrated at all ti. Happy trails.

      I'm planning on carrying around 5 liters of water. One 0.75 aluminium drinking bottle and two 1.5 litre plastic bottles. Should I upgrade to 2l instead? I'm around 183 and weight more or less 95 kilograms.

      Assisi is on the main path obviously but do visit Perugia please

      Are you a local? How do people tolerate wild camping around the path? I have always stealth camped and probably will not make myself available to anyone I do not want to, but I wonder if I should just ask some people. My Italian is not great, but it is enough to understand a good amount and to say enough to be understood.

      My plan was to walk until Assisi and then possibly until Firenze if I have the time. I have some stuff starting in September, I am at loss for every week extra I spend walking. So I am very careful about detours. But if I finish my walk in Assisi, I will definitely visit Perugia.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        5L is plenty, you want to hydrate but you don't want to carry so much weight on your back that makes your hike uncomfortable.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Sadly my pack weights a lot more than I'd like it to weight, and with water and food weight it will be even more.
          Pic related.
          >+ camera and some odd bits and pieces + food and water

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >+ camera
            kys """influencer"""

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              dude people still take photos to keep for themselves
              fricking zoomers

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Are you a local? How do people tolerate wild camping around the path?
        not local but afaik wild camping is illegal basically everywhere in Italy
        if they'll give you shit about it though is different

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          It is, but at the same time I have slept in Venice and in very central places. Very easy to hide in plain sight.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >if they'll give you shit about it though is different
          Rule of thumb, they only punish you if you are a law abiding Italian. If you are a regular citizen with papers in order and a clean record and you pay your taxes, you will get the maximum punishment possible. On the other hand if you are an illegal immigrant from Africa with no papers and you don't speak a word of the language you are free to do whatever you want. The key is being thorough with breaking the law.

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Keep yourself hydrated at all ti. Happy trails.

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Assisi is on the main path obviously but do visit Perugia please

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    beware that italy is NOT lgbtqi2+ friendly

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      we too got pozzed, give it 2-3 years and we'll have caught up to the US

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Do you realize that in September we will have a FAR RIGHT government? here the cities, maybe, live in the 21st century.. but the masses of the countryside, they still live in the middle ages

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >we will have a FAR RIGHT government
          there's no left and right anywhere in the world. in the end the right are just the usual grifters ingratiating themselves with the demographic because as long as we're in the EU we have to follow EU directives

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Do you realize that in September we will have a FAR RIGHT government? here the cities, maybe, live in the 21st century.. but the masses of the countryside, they still live in the middle ages

            Quit it with this shit, this is PrepHole.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              yeah sorry
              to stay on topic there's a Vagrant Holiday episode where he's stealth camping in Italy

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    beware the bears and wolves anon

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    See you on the trail. I'll be on my Frera Mountain bike

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      What color? I'm going next Thursday.

      >+ camera
      kys """influencer"""

      I'm taking photos for myself with an old Canon camera from 2004. Quit being gay.

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Fricked up big time
    >over packed
    >had a poor backpack with a frame that makes my back sweat constantly
    >didn't plan the stays at all, went without a credential
    >didn't account for the fact that lots of tje path is road walking, had mountain trekking shoes that gave me blisters
    tl;dr prepare better than me lads
    I'll definitely try again, but it's so easy to frick up long distance walking, I'm almost ashamed how poorfly I executed it at all. I had done long distances before, on and off between places, also wild camping, but I was somehow better prepared then without a clue than now when I should know better. Now both of my feet are covered in blisters, tarmac walking is brutal with 22kg backpack.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      ouch anon that sounds bad

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        At least I will be able to go to Val Grande for a week or two to do some trails there. Very disappointed as I won't have the time to do this again for some time. At the same time I was calculating on the train that I could have shaved off at least 5kg in weight by removing clutter and having smarter choices. I went full moron for some reason. But in a way I am glad it didn't work out because it is hot as balls and no matter how light my pack would be I'd still sweat like a pig and it's not fun walking for 3 or 4 days without a shower in 30c heat.

        I can only wish better luck (and more brains) to anyone trying to do the same.

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