I have returned home safely!

Hey everybody!

Here is just a really short update to inform you that I have safely arrived in the Netherlands! I'm currently at my brothers- and sisters place in Utrecht and will be going to my actual home tonight :).

When I get back home home I will write some final conclusion and upload some more pictures. Thanks a lot for reading!

Very short summary:
So I did it! I walked to Assisi as well! Together with Elena, one of the Italian girls I met on during the last couple of days before Rome. It was hard to walk the 25km a day, because everything was in the mountains and very straining, but I LOVED it all, marvelous sights and landscapes and a lot of fun together with Elena! There where no official places for pilgrims along this route, so every night we had fun trying to find a good place to sleep for free, and usually that worked out well :). Finally the same kind of adventure I had missed a bit for the last month or so. The last 3 days Eleonora also came in, and the last day Furio and Vittorio joined the club, and we walked to Assisi, where we watched the nicest churches and the tomb of St. Francis. Also the Maria Degli Angeli with the very special and intruiging small temple inside. I think along this trip we have visited more cracks in rocks where the guy had slept than anyone else :). So this part of the trip was very St. Francis-themed. Along the trip we encountered some other pilgrims who where walking in the other direction, and we had nice interaction with them. Unfortunately they usually either talked Dutch or German so Elena was kind of standing there ;). But one Dutch guy insisted on talking English with me so she could understand as well, wich was very considerate of him.
So I've learned quite a bit of new Italian here as well, because Elena kept correcting me when making mistakes and slowly my Italian formed into a partially understandable shape :).
Furio gave me a shirt of his hometown Castiglion Fiorentino, and he had also practiced whistling with his hands! So a constant whistling-with-your-hands battle emerged. Haha.
Well basically after touring around in Assisi for 3 hours or so we went by car to their hometown where I was welcomed to a house with a swimming pool! We had 3 days together and then it was time for me to leave to my parents in Liguria, where they where on vacation. There was an absolute paradise, no electricity, a lovely small stream/current and beautifull peacefull nature. After that I set out to Frankfurt to go to my first AYUDH camp there! Because my best friend Joy had invited me for this event. It is pretty hard to describe in short words, but basically it was a group of 130 young people talking/meditating/doing tai chi/eating great food and hugging all the time, with the theme "Give peace a chance". For info: . The fact that I'll be attending next year is as sure as the sun coming up tomorrow! (I really hope it does :P).

So then me and Joy went back by train and now I'm here! On my brothers computer :).

Thanks a lot for reading, more interesting thoughts will be added when I get back home or feel like it :).

Pace e bene ;)

Ilja

PS: I miss you Elena! And I miss everybody from the camp a lot!