Day 3 - Sezze (33 kms)

Long day today, vicious climb out of Cori, it probably helped that it was mostly in the dark, then 13kms to Norma, picture below. Walked on a while, had one look at Sermoneta and said, let’s go around. My first great decision of the trek. 

The thing with the mountains is going up (and down) there are usually a bunch of switchbacks which consume a lot of energy and you aren’t actually going forward. And given that this was effectively a double stage and there was a lot of mountain stuff at the end I thought, let’s give this one a skip, especially seeing I’m staying at Sezze, yet another hilltop stop though not as high as Cori. Maybe some pics might help. 

Looking back up at Norma on the escarpment 


Me in the clouds



Sermoneta 



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