After the purgatory of the last couple of days we decided to take it easy today and took a route with about 30 some miles and not much more than 800m climbing. After 2km altitude yesterday, a blessed relief. Speaking...

Jens did warn me the first few days would be the toughest. I hope he’s right, because we’ve only done two and I’m shattered! It is, as if it needs saying, more than worthwhile. https://geriackpackers.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/F436309A-FC6F-45F0-848F-8151AF8BD8F0.mov

Oh, what a beautiful mornin’Oh, what a beautiful dayI’ve got a beautiful feelin’Everything’s goin’ my way

Too tired to post much. Three hours sleep followed by a mad Uber dash after the car refused to start, then the flight, then fifty odd miles of getting through and out of Turin and into the Po valley, and...