Walking France and Italy

 Judi Lawler is in France and Italy for a month.   One of her friends is walking the whole pilgrim route from Holland to the Spanish coast past Santiago on the west coast – 4 months constant walking!  Jude is joining her for a week at Perigueux (where the Tour de France finished in the south of France before flying to Paris).   They do between 20 – 30 k per day, staying at gits or refuges (there are lots along the pilgrim trails).   Jude then flies to Geneva, trains to Mount Blanc and joins 7 other girlfriends for a 10 day walk around Mt Blanc  (It’s called “the Walk of Mount Blanc”). Then train to the Cinque Terre in Italy, and they all walk that too!

The photo of Jude is…”…all packed and practicing for the take off”.   The other is the 8 of them about to board the airport bus in Echuca (driven by Tony) for the trip to Tulla.   We just made it out of Echuca before the cork came out of the first bubbles.

You can follow her travels on facebook or http://blog.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/judilawler/1/1406261066/tpod.html