Milan to Verona – 165 km (train) & 18,065 Fit Bit steps There is no end of fascinating places to visit in Italy. Verona is yet another. The city is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site because of its urban structure and architecture, which includes a 1st century Roman Arena, home of world renowned opera performances ...

Milan to Gravedona return- 232 km (train and bus) & 13,436 Fit Bit steps Visit to Ospedale Classificato Moriggia Pelascini, in Gravedona We travelled by train and bus to the foothills of the Alps north of Milan to visit the Ospedale Classificato  Moriggia Pelascini, in Gravedona on Lake Como. Through an introduction kindly made by Dr. Joaquim ...

Ravenna to Milan – 299 km (train & bus) &  13,722 & 2 days of 35,674 Fit Bit steps Milan deserves its reputation as a world class city, for its style, history and culture, past and present. Not knowing what to expect, we enjoyed our time in this cosmopolitan, open and lively city. Our primary reason for visiting ...

Urbino to Ravenna – 135 km (train & bus) & 16,112 & 1 day 11,804 Fit Bit steps Ravenna’s eight listings as UNESCO World Heritage Sites recognize the city’s unique collection of early Christian mosaics and monuments, dating back to the 5th to 8th centuries. As capital of the Western Holy Roman Empire and later, the Eastern ...

Assisi to Urbino – 224 km (train & bus) & 6323 & 1 day 7427 Fit Bit steps Had viruses not intervened we had hoped to spend a few days walking part of the Way of St. Francis (Via Francigena di San Francesco), a pilgrimage route that follows an old Roman road between Florence and Rome. Instead, ...

Praiano to Assisi 449 km (bus and train) & 4 days lay over Blessed are those who endure in peace for by You, Most High, they shall be crowned. – Saint Francis of Assisi, from The Canticle of the Sun. From the train station on the Tiber River valley floor we got a good view of the historic hill town ...

Naples to Praiano 70 km (train & bus) & 7748 Fit Bit Steps 2 days –  29513 Fit Bit steps Our first espresso of the day was taken standing at the bar of Leopardo’s, Italian style. A regional train took us past Herculaneum and Pompeii to the city of Sorrento, perched on the cliffs of the Amalfi ...

Pisa to Naples – 550 km (train) & 12,391 Fit Bit steps 3 days – 46,717 Fit Bit steps Even, or perhaps especially, after the restorative peace of the Cinque Terre, we were not prepared for the assault of Naples, which was to serve as a base for visiting Pompeii and other sights south of the city. ...

Riomaggiore to Pisa – 100 km & 19445 Fit Bit steps We were delighted to find that Pisa is not just a tower that is leaning from centuries of engineering, architectural and hydrological mishaps. The Piazza Dei Miracoli which comprises the tower, the Duomo, Baptistry and Camposanto are a beautifully impressive whole, and despite the crowds, ...

Manarola to Riomaggiore – 1 km/ 17822 Fit Bit steps   Before the 2011 floods, it would have been an easy 1km walk to Riomaggiore along the Via dell’Amore (named after the increase in marriages between the two villages when the coastal path was first opened). Instead, we had to navigate very steep trails above the villages, ...