{"id":1067,"date":"2019-06-09T15:42:40","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T15:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/blog_camino_2018\/?p=1067"},"modified":"2026-05-02T10:54:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T10:54:35","slug":"monterosi-to-formello-26k-roman-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2018\/?p=1067","title":{"rendered":"Monterosi to Formello  26k Roman Holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style='float:left;margin-right:20px;width:300px'><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/MobileBlog20190609173918430.jpg\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" title=\"Click here for a larger image\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/MobileBlog20190609173918430.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/MobileBlog20190609173922478.jpg\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" title=\"Click here for a larger image\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/MobileBlog20190609173922478.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/MobileBlog20190609173925624.jpg\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" title=\"Click here for a larger image\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/MobileBlog20190609173925624.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/MobileBlog20190609173927977.jpg\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" title=\"Click here for a larger image\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/MobileBlog20190609173927977.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>It is festival week in Monterosi and the children parade with colourful banners. At midnight we hear fireworks, motorbikes and hilarity and then at 4 o\u2019 clock thunder and lightning, this is unfortunate as we are getting up at 5.30 because it is going to be a long hot day.<br \/>After walking through grass meadows we come to Monte Gelato Falls, a series of small waterfalls but no ice cream! A police lady is on duty and portaloos are ready for some event later in the day.<br \/>Oak woods are next and then the steep ascent into Campagnano Di Roma, another hilltop long street town. In a pleasant square with a dolphin fountain the first bar is full but we find a little old place with an English proprietor. <br \/>In the bread shop, cakes and pastries are being bought and beautifully wrapped up, maybe for Sunday visits to mama or nonna.<br \/>Later, we are sitting, perspiring under\u00a0a tree at the edge of the road, when a man with a man bun, in an open top black Ford Mustang, slams on his brakes and comes to a halt beside us. Oh O what have we done wrong?\u00a0 But no, he just wants to discuss with us doing the Via Francigena and how it compares with Compostela which he has already done.<br \/>Up and down long hot roads with little shade we eventually come to an open area with a little stream, ringed with shady oaks. Families are picnicking and barbecuing in the heat.<br \/>It is now over 30 degrees and a man with a fridge run by a generator, containing cool beer gives Tony a couple of bottles which disappear down our greedy\u00a0 throats under the next shady tree.<br \/>We finally make it to our B and B for the night just outside Formello.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/?ie=UTF8&amp;q=42.07873,12.39077&amp;ll=42.07873,12.39077&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>It is festival week in Monterosi and the children parade with colourful banners. At midnight we hear fireworks, motorbikes and hilarity and then at 4 o\u2019 clock thunder and lightning, this is unfortunate as we are getting up at 5.30 because it is going to be a long hot day.After walking through grass meadows we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2018\/?p=1067\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Monterosi to Formello  26k Roman Holiday&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2018\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2018\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2018\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2018\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2018\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1067"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2018\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3724,"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2018\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions\/3724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2018\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2018\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2018\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}