Tribil di Sopra is really a quiet place and we did sleep well. Until the church bells rang. At 5 a.m.! Twice in fact! When at 6 a.m. another jingle concert of bells started we got up.
Breakfast was quite a disappointment, especially compared to dinner last night and – being fed up with this white Italian “bread” – I ate some of my crisp bread we had bought a few days before. Also, the yogurt that was in a large bowl at the breakfast table tasted sourly as if it had turned. So we kept it rather short and left. 😉
The weather was quite good, there were no rain or thunderstorms predicted and it was cloudy and not too hot. Perfect hiking conditions!
We hiked mainly through the forest and over meadows for a good part of today’s trail. The path would have been nice and easy to hike but quite often we had to do some little detours because of the damages of the thunderstorms. Many trees lay on the path and small and large branches littered the way. We now could see the dimensions of those storms.
Nonetheless we had no long ascents or descents but mostly smaller ups and downs for most of the way. It was not very exciting but enjoyable to hike.
Once we found this awesome swing:
On the Monte S. Giovanni we had a gorgeous view down on the Italian hills and valleys. There were also some horses with their foals, so sweet!!!
The three Germans from the hostel at Tribil di Sopra came around when we made a break at the Monte S. Giovanni and wanted to feed fresh apples to the horses. I had to intervene and explained that this could have bad implications on horses. Anyway, you should never feed someone else’s animals without them knowing. 😒
Further along the way we saw the small old church Santo Nicolo (and because of looking at it and making pictures we nearly took the wrong path 😉):
We also stumbled over some very nice situated houses:
After 10km there was a rather steep descent (somewhere at the beginning of the descent we thought to have spotted the sea in the far distance!) and immediately afterwards an ascent over 3km and we reached the beautiful Castelmonte, a very old pilgrimage place and now quite a tourist attraction.
Below the castle we found a nice café and stopped for some great strudel and coffee. There we also met the two girls from Germany again who were hiking the same distance like us since Trenta.
After continuing, the path led downwards but incredibly pleasantly. Although we already felt our feet and legs a little since hiking for 15 days in a row without a break the route today was long but very enjoyable to hike!
On the way down we already had a nice view on Cividale:
The region now was turning into the typical Italian wine region and we saw nice houses with many plants everywhere. The scent of jasmine was all around and I tried some plums and grapes, the last ones not being ripe enough. 😉 I also spotted the first fig trees – man, I was tempted. 😁 Already the last two days we found incredibly many blackberry bushes and today also I had to stop for some every once in a while.
Around 4 p.m. we finally reached Cividale, a very pretty medieval city with its city walls still intact. (The city was founded by Julius Caesar.)
Our accomodation for the next two days (we’ll have our rest day tomorrow) is an Air B&B, a whole apartment just for us in the middle of the old city in a quiet little side road.
We were so happy to find a washing machine and first thing we did was to wash our daily hiking stuff. Wow, fresh laundry is so awesome!!! 😂
Later we did some shopping and then had something to eat at the pizzeria just around the corner. It tasted great but it was little marred because a whole invasion of mosquitos choose me for their dinner. 😒 I also tried two different icecream locations in the evening, so good! I’ve got to continue the inspection tomorrow. 😁
Some figures for today:
- 25,7km
- 646m up
- 1122m down
- Hiking time: 6h 37m