{"id":864,"date":"2019-02-16T16:55:35","date_gmt":"2019-02-16T16:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pilgrimsway.org.uk\/?p=864"},"modified":"2021-12-04T12:34:58","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T12:34:58","slug":"day-55-san-germano-vercellese-to-robbio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pilgrimsway.org.uk\/?p=864","title":{"rendered":"Day 55 San Germano Vercellese to Vercelli – 25th July"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Distance: 22.1 km \u2013 Elevation +20 m -60 m<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weather:\u00a0<\/strong>Sunny. Temperature: High 27 degrees<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a warm night but I slept remarkably well. I was ready to leave at 7.00 am and as I signed the visitor\u2019s book I noticed that Jean Pierre had stayed the previous night. Temperatures were already around 25 degrees when I left and the humidity was probably close to 100 %. Much of today\u2019s walk was via tracks winding through the paddy fields, it was an exhausting and tiring walk as the temperatures rose. It was a sea of green as the paddy fields stretched far into the distance with small flocks of herons and egrets. I passed by seemingly uninhabited small farming units. By the side of one of the tracks was a sad reminder of the Second World War, a memorial to two partisans who had been killed in April 1945, Poncaralo Pierino and Capenzo Domenico, the memorial read: \u201cda essi l’esempio per una piu Sicura Liberta\u201d \u2013 which translates as \u201cfrom them the example for a more secure freedom\u201d I stopped and rested briefly in the only available shade of a rare farm building and struggled to remove my sweat-drenched shirt which was clinging to my body before it was replaced with the only spare shirt I carry with me. I was totally exhausted when I arrived in Vercelli where I found a restaurant on a tree-lined avenue and sat at a table beneath one of the trees. The first order was a large glass of ice-cold beer followed by a very tasty salad. I had booked to stay at the Cerruti Hotel on the outskirts of Vercelli. So after lunch and feeling much refreshed I walked to the hotel, it was much further than I expected along fairly busy roads and I was glad to arrive sometime close to 4.00 pm. It was wonderful to feel the refreshing water of the shower as it washed away the sweat and grime. I washed all my clothes which soon dried on the balcony in the heat of the afternoon sun. Supper this evening was a delicious pasta washed down by a glass or two of excellent Italian wine.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Ostello – San Germano Vercellese<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Olcenengo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Vercelli<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Vercelli<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Vercelli<\/figcaption><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Distance: 22.1 km \u2013 Elevation +20 m -60 m Weather:\u00a0Sunny. Temperature: High 27 degrees It was a warm night but I slept remarkably well. I was ready to leave at 7.00 am and as I signed the visitor\u2019s book I noticed that Jean Pierre had stayed the previous night. Temperatures were already around 25 degrees when I left and the humidity was probably close to 100 %. Much of today\u2019s walk was via tracks winding<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimsway.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimsway.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimsway.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimsway.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimsway.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimsway.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5179,"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimsway.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions\/5179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimsway.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimsway.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimsway.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}