P2 Stage 37 Campignano Romano to La Storta – 25 km

Our last day in the open fields as tomorrow we cross the Rome GRA and walk through the Rome suburbs and finally to Vatican City. The scenery looks amazingly like the one we swept through in Pas-de-Calais in France at the beginning of the walk. Fields of tall wheat, the pungent smell of cow pastures and hog farms, gently rolling hills and puffy clouds in the distance. No amount of fatigue can obscure the lightness of such walking.

In Formello, about half way, we stopped for Tramezzini at a local Panetteria. The man making panini, a rugged, bald headed and tattooed man who looked remarkably like Il Duce, was so taken with us that he held up a whole line of customers and then loaded us up with chocolate. Honoraria, he called it.

Our Hotel is on the Via Cassia, a busy thoroughfare that at this point winds its way through some of the less desirable neighborhoods of Rome. Nonetheless we were able to find an Osteria that served delicious spaghetti vongole. Reinforcement for tomorrow’s entry into St Peter’s Square.