Friday 28 April 2023

Stage 42: Vetralla to Sutri. A decaying town and long decayed Etruscans. Part 1.

Bus Cotral's app scored another victory this morning, getting me up early to catch what it informed me was the only (but turned out to be non-existent) bus of the day to Vetralla at 7am. Turns out there are plenty of buses in fact, and they start at 08.25 on a Sunday.  

Undaunted, I picked up the Via at Cura di Vetralla, for once not steeply uphill, to start the day through mature woods, 
well-stocked with several species of flying insect, barely repelled by my liberally applied jungle-strength deterrent. The woods were also full of birdsong, and light freckled through the fresh spring green of the canopy. 

At Casale delle Capannacce, the path has been diverted from how the official app shows it, but is very well signed. Here I met a Dutch woman who insisted on checking the diversion for herself, finding a locked gate across the original path. A clear case of : "Geroff moi land!"

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