Today was going to be a new experience. Caminoways ‘don’t work with accommodation at Pieve Santo Stefano’ which is the main St Francis way route so I say goodbye to my recently made friends Wies, Lenie & Liesbeth and will tackle the walk to Caprese Michaelangelo without a route map and relying on written text instructions….  I have become very used to GPX route maps.

So I leave around 9am looking for the Piazza dei Caduti. Its quite tricky to ensure you are on the right track.  At times signage in Italy is very similar to that in Abu Dhabi … there are either no signs, or all the signs lead to the same place. [Note to Caminoways – just include a printed map with your guide].

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Last night I ran into again 3 lovely Dutch ladies over dinner, I had met them on the first day and had breakfast at the same bar in the morning, also booked by Caminoways. So off we went, a party of 4 on our adventure.The focus of today was to get to the magical forests and Church of La Verna Sanctuary where St Francis spent much of his life.

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