Coming home 21.7.2024 Sunday On our last day we get up around 8:30am. We go for “breakfast,” which was included in the price — we get coffee and a croissant, better than nothing. Check-out is at noon, so we lounge in bed while I update the blog. We head for the train at 11am, since…
Rocher des Marrous – Bobbio Pellice 20.7.2024 Saturday → 29,3 km ↑ 1444 m – total 351,3 km Alarm’s at 6:30am, and it’s 0°C outside. We push it back a while. I don’t feel great. My stomach hurts, and I feel like the last day of the SNP trail (back then I threw up and…
Ceillac – Rocher des Marrous 19.7.2024 Friday → 22,2 km ↑ 1697 m – total 322 km We sleep in, until about 8:30am. It served me well. We’re in no rush, having tea with Pierre and chatting about gear with two fifty-something guys doing the GR 5 (a 650 km route from Geneva to Nice)….
Col Girardin – Ceillac 18.7.2024 Thursday → 34,4 km ↑ 2096 m – total 299,8 km Alarm’s at 6:15am. We don’t want to get up. We hear sheep coming closer. At 6:30am I open the tent door — the sheep are about 300 m away. There’s a dog on the edge of the flock that…
Refuge de Furfande – Col Girardin 17.7.2024 Wednesday → 32,7 km ↑ 2171 m – total 265,4 km Alarm’s at 6:15am again, but I really don’t want to get up today. I feel very tired. It’s 1°C outside with frost on the grass. I stay warm in the sleeping bag as long as I can….
Refuge des Fonts de Cervières – Refuge de Furfande 16.7.2024 Tuesday → 28,6 km ↑ 1682 m – total 232,7 km Alarm’s at 6:15am. I sleep really well tonight. Even though I went to bed at 11pm, getting up feels easy. Breakfast is baguette with eggs and pâté. We haven’t had such a hearty breakfast…
Bivacco Giorno Casalegno – Refuge des Fonts de Cervières 15.7.2024 Monday → 27,2 km ↑ 1449 m – total 204,1 km Alarm is set for 6:30am again. The sun starts to rise slowly over the horizon. It’s English Monday, the day we speak English together, something we started at New Year. Breakfast is bread with…
Camping Chisonetto – Bivacco Giorno Casalegno 14.7.2024 Sunday → 26,9 km ↑ 1897 m – total 176,9 km Since I went to bed pretty late and had some prosecco, I refuse to get up early. I finally wake up around 8am. We have a fairly slow morning, still charging our devices and having a hearty…
Colle delle Vallette – Camping Chisonetto 13.7.2024 Saturday → 34 km ↑ 904 m – total 150 km It was fairly cold overnight. In the morning the thermometer in the tent reads 5°C. Alarm’s at 6:30am, but we really don’t feel like facing that cold. We have breakfast in our sleeping bags, bread with ketchup…
Meana di Susa – Colle delle Vallette 12.7.2024 Friday → 23,1 km ↑ 2068 m – total 116 km Alarm’s at 6:30am, but I only manage to pee and go get water before it starts raining. Jozef says something was going on here in the night. The Swiss guys kept a fire burning until 3am…