Friday, May 17, 2024

We move through fields surrounded by mountain ranges, rendered grey-blue through the effect of atmospheric perspective. The centuries-old architecture allows us passage through walls long collapsed, walking through structures left standing by load-bearing supports and weight-channelling arches. Clusters of stone and massive brick dot the horizon, rising from fields of waving grass. Clouds form, rain falls, and as suddenly we are entering town. I end the day reflecting on a walk through distant history, made in the short hours of an early afternoon. My prank of chirping out einstürzende neubauten when the two Dutchmen converse in their native tongue reaffirms our walking through this place heavy with the weight of history.

Today’s distance walked: 27.4 km    |    Total distance walked: 415.71 km

“The weak become heroes and the stars align.” — The Streets, Weak Become Heroes (from “Original Pirate Material”)