22km flat.
We were not the only people in the abbey lastnight two couples Italian and Canadian arrived later. One of them, Alessandro will be an Hospitalero further down the Via Francigena in August.
We leave in a cool morning after breakfast and scoot across the slightly damp field which warm gradually to reveal the usual herons and butterflies. We get to Remondo a nice little place with a café with cappucini with coaco and are then ushered into the church open at the time. Someone is cleaning, the ceiling frescoes are very good better than in many much bigger churches. We march on across fields and canals to Tremollo (not the 60s band) and are greeted by a TV star! Tony recognizes Carlos from the BBC program on the Via Francigena. He pedals of with our credentials and soon returns with them stamped and certificates and badges for passing through Tremollo. The force is indeed with us. He declined a beer with us and pedals off, every man should have a hobby! We have to see the church in this place it is a bit dark but with four bishops in silver behind the alter. We leave them all there not even the fourth is with us.
But Ray gets an email from his daughter Rosie in Sydney. She is in a Star Wars bar with a Blue Light Sabre we presume a cocktail. Modern communication is amazing.
Not many canals later we get a pizza for lunch in Garlasco and are unimpressed by the Municipio in the main square. Another couple of km and we arrive at an old mill, the Exodus Foundation a donativo hostel and institution for young offenders. Tim finds a regime of cold showers difficult! Betsy talks to those in charge and the rest get pleasant warm water.