{"id":933,"date":"2019-05-23T16:17:45","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T16:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/blog_camino_2018\/?p=933"},"modified":"2019-05-23T16:17:45","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T16:17:45","slug":"san-miniato-to-gambassi-terme-24k-on-which-we-meet-giovanni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/blog_camino_2018\/2019\/05\/23\/san-miniato-to-gambassi-terme-24k-on-which-we-meet-giovanni\/","title":{"rendered":"San Miniato to Gambassi Terme 24k On which we meet Giovanni"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style='float:left;margin-right:20px;width:300px'><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/blog_camino_2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/MobileBlog20190523181734072.jpg\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img alt=\"\" title=\"Click here for a larger image\" src=\"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/blog_camino_2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/MobileBlog20190523181734072.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/blog_camino_2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/MobileBlog20190523181737270.jpg\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img alt=\"\" title=\"Click here for a larger image\" src=\"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/blog_camino_2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/MobileBlog20190523181737270.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/blog_camino_2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/MobileBlog20190523181739814.jpg\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img alt=\"\" title=\"Click here for a larger image\" src=\"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/blog_camino_2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/MobileBlog20190523181739814.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/blog_camino_2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/MobileBlog20190523181741592.jpg\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img alt=\"\" title=\"Click here for a larger image\" src=\"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/blog_camino_2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/MobileBlog20190523181741592.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The bulky brick built buildings of San Miniato look slightly spooky, towering up through the morning mist.<br \/>We do not lose height but set off along a ridge with frequent backward glances at the\u00a0 hill top buildings and their massive foundations.<br \/>It is pleasant walking with views to both sides of\u00a0 classic Tuscan countryside rolling away into the distance.<br \/>At the top of a hill we stop to talk to Fred who is enjoying a well earned rest, when a white van pulls up. The driver proceeds to embrace us, he is Giovanni, he tells is he has walked<br \/>Canterbury to Jerusalem in his time and shows us pictures of him embracing the Pope.<br \/>He leads us on to an oak tree and a seat with a book to sign. After further embraces we leave him with a French couple who have just arrived.<br \/>Later as we are sitting by a crossroads having a rest he drives past with some lunch for them, they hadn\u2019t realised there was nothing available on this country stage.<br \/>We continue through the improving weather and spot butterflies and flowers. Top sightings are a single bee orchid and a badger crossing a busy road.<br \/>The final ascent of 200 m through vines and olives brings us to the Ostello Sigerico, a lovely building at the back of a church with a garden looking up to Gambassi Terme, a kilometre above, where we plan to get breakfast tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/?ie=UTF8&amp;q=43.77607,10.68995&amp;ll=43.77607,10.68995&amp;t=k&amp;z=16\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Link to where we are on Google Maps<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bulky brick built buildings of San Miniato look slightly spooky, towering up through the morning mist.We do not lose height but set off along a ridge with frequent backward glances at the\u00a0 hill top buildings and their massive foundations.It is pleasant walking with views to both sides of\u00a0 classic Tuscan countryside rolling away into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/blog_camino_2018\/2019\/05\/23\/san-miniato-to-gambassi-terme-24k-on-which-we-meet-giovanni\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;San Miniato to Gambassi Terme 24k On which we meet Giovanni&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/blog_camino_2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/blog_camino_2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/blog_camino_2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/blog_camino_2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/blog_camino_2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/blog_camino_2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":934,"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/blog_camino_2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions\/934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/blog_camino_2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/blog_camino_2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/blog_camino_2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}