Pope to Puglia Day 10 Minturno to Sessa Aurunca 30km

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The heat is setting in earlier than ever, up in the 80s today, just in time for the first 30km trek of this walk.  We started walking by the Garigliano River, and then made our way up the Aurunci mountains to Sessa Aurunca.  This area was the site of some of the most ferocious fighting in WW2, Sessa itself and Teano, where we go tomorrow, were pulverized before the Germans were chased out.  Nonetheless, the towns are full of life and you wouldn’t know they had come back from a pile of rubbish until you look at the pictures hanging in the café/bars that reveal a desolate landscape where nothing is standing. Great care was taken to restore the interior of the churches to their riotous Rococo pageantry, as though nothing happened.  It was a tough day, but we had the best meal to date: a plate of spaghetti Lupini, the smallest vongole but by far the tastiest.  

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  3. From the US Army Military History — The US Fifth Army vs. the Germans along the Barbara Line, where you are. “Whenever they withdrew the Germans exploited the precipitous cliffs, deep canyons, and high tablelands to make their delaying action effective. From these positions their artillery, automatic weapons, and small arms harassed the advance of forward elements of the Fifth Army.” And that’s the way it went all the way to Velletri. Watch for shells. Spaghetti Lupini sounds delicious. On to the Apennines. Leo

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