Vercelli - Mortara - Garlasco 33 + 21 km. 20 and 21.09.22

As you can see above we, Caroline and I did a long stretch yesterday of 33 km after having done 29 km the day before. My feet and calv muscles were hurting badly and I could do with a massage (which I didn't get). We arrived at a BnB being run by very nice people that take good care of us. However they also love to talk, so no time for blogging. We tried to get accommodation in the next town of Garlasco, but everything was fully booked so we decided to walk to Garlasco with a reduced load in our backpacks, walked to Garlasco where we met up with Luca and Nathalia for a beer for the last time as they quit the trail in Pavia to morrow. Then we took the train back to Mortara and stay in the same BnB as the night before. Lovely hosts! The landlord told us that this week is Milan Fashion Week and therefore almost every hotel and BnB in a radius of some 40 km is fully booked, as people avoid the high rates in Milan and rather take the train to villages around for the night. Anyway, just today we managed to find a hotel in Pavia that still had two rooms available for a higher rate than we usually get, but sometimes you just have no other choise. So tomorrow morning we take the train to Garlasco and walk on to Pavia. a distance of 24 km. 

Now we'll have something to eat and try to rest for another tough day to morrow. The temperature has dropped some, so very good for walking.

Have a good evening!

Peter asked me in yesterdays stage I would come out of the tap in a drop of water in an other world. What I meant is that we all, and our entire universe would come out of that tap as a droplet of water, maybe in some other unknown dimension.