Hiking/Tracking on thursday

On Thursday (31. October its Halloween here in Italy) I have been invited to a five hour guided hike in the mountains around Norcia, in Umbria, with Sara and a group of Spanish exchange students. Finally an excuse to go and buy some tracking boots. I have plenty of shoes and boots but, almost all of them doesn't have that nice feature of being waterproof. And it removes some of the pleasure of going for long walks, when its combined with ice cold foot baths.

To my great disappointment ( and surprise ) my huge feet didn't fit the James bond style boots, but more the primary school teacher model. But its the comfort thats important and not the fashion statement, I bought the good ones ( i.e. the not James bond ones:))

It has been a while since I walked for more a few kilometers, so I decided to walk home from work ( 6-7 km), to test my new spaceships, if they would start hurting me after some time. I had hoped to walk home in an hour, but walking through Rome offers many temptations - very beautiful of historic scenes, shops, funny tourists to watch (For the Romans I was probably one of those, stalking through Rome at fast march speed). Or if you are into freaky parkings, this is the best place in the world. But even if I kept my stops down to only two bookshops ( where one was closed) I finally had to give up and realize that I wouldn't make it in an hour, and by then I figured I might as well take some pictures :-)



Anyway including the bookshops and pictures it took me 1 hour and 20 minutes, which is more or less that same as in a car in rush hour...