Friends, if you once subscribed to this seemingly long-lost blog, you will start to see that I am tinkering and revising and hopefully finishing this project. If you would like to unsubscribe, please feel free to do so!

If you are willing to have another go at this journey with me, you will see that I am rewriting the introduction, with the story now beginning on the train to Paris, en media res. From there, I go back to the beginning of the journey in England, three years earlier. Once I get the first section (London to Paris) organized, I’ll be adding new posts that chronicle the journey from Paris to Rome (and back).

Some news: I’ve been selected for a writer’s residency in the medieval village of Latera, about 90 miles northwest of Rome! Thank you to La Casa Etruria Artist Residency. I’ll be in residence there for two weeks in May. Prior to that, I will be walking the final section of the Via Francigena from Viterbo to Rome, about 75 miles. The Via Francigena was a pilgrimage, trade, and diplomatic route that was first established in the 900s and that has been revived as a European cultural route.

Malory’s itinerary, the route I am following, roughly follows the Via Francigena and was no doubt informed by traveler’s stories from the way. I may set up a substack for that day-to-day journey (about a week of walking) that links back to here.

It’s been a continuing and incredibly rich journey; it’s good to have you along as I resume the story.