Day 32 - Pavia to Orio Litta

• Day 32 - day 11 for 2023
• Satuday, 22 September  
• Pavia to Orio Litta   36 km today - bus 14 - walking 22
• 778 km on my Via Francigena (266 km for 2023
•    36 km for today
• 814 km on my Via Francigena (302 km for 2023)

l rise early so I can leave by 07h30.

The bus to Belgioioso leaves at 07h40 and I don't wish to miss it - the next is at 11h00.

I get off about 08h30 and look for a cash point and underway just after 09h.

I am on the roads because the official route (not the one created by Archbishop Sigeric) goes backwards and forwards and adding considerable distance in the process. 

I am surprised by the many small retail shops selling cold water and similar.  But I can feel my strength ebbing.

As today's journey nears its end there is a guy standing on my side of the r9as and waving at me.  I stop: he has two questions - 

Why aren't I on the official route? My answer - Archbishop Sigeric, no doubt keen to get back to Canterbury, would not have taken the now official route.

What does a Scotsman wear under the kilt? My answer - not telling. 

I've almost got over the head cold acquired at Montreux more than a week ago. And I'm waking during the night and not getting back to sleep as much as I would like.

At last I come under a railway arch and there is thr church for Orio Litta less than 2 km.  But the path is over 2.5 km to go.

I struggle with this information and the church never seems to get closer.  But then I am there.

I goto to the vigil Eucharist for the Sunday.

And begin looking for accommodation for Sunday night in Piacenza.

And so to bed.