Ready to book

The window to book flights for  the dates I want is only a week away.  So I have updated the schedule with the specifics of the dates and times for the flights in preparation. The Qatar route SYD-FCO return is very good, with just the right times for the transfer at DOH.

In the last few days I have also made one small but fun tweak to the route. At the suggestion of Keith I have included the village of Narni in the route. This village was the inspiration for Narnia in the C.S. Lewis novels.

Spending a night there has led me to review the previous part of the route and I have made a change to that as a result. After Perugia we won't go along the valley through Spoleto and Strettura. The route through Strettura was there because in an earlier iteration it was a springboard to cross the mountains to Leonessa and then south to L'Aquila through Borbona. The decision to instead go via Terni and Rieti meant that that pause before the mountains was not needed, Now that the route will go through Narni (even further west) it makes the Spoleto-Strettua route an unnecessary detour.

Instead after Perugia we will continue to follow the Tiber down as far as Todi before heading over to the Fiume Nera valley and our stop at Narni.