As you travel along with a Donkey
I was shown a site where a quite original way by a man told of his journey through Italy on foot and accompanied by a donkey
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It seems incredible, but in fact this has been for centuries the preferred form of travel for ordinary people. no weight on his shoulders, occasional chance to rest from the road sitting on the back of the animal. The New American Family moved according to the Gospel through very extensive areas (just look at an atlas the distance between Israel and Egypt) carrying their belongings and even occasionally his body on the back of a donkey.
It seems that the ass than the horse is a lot better investment: in the past to transport the horse was either a luxury reserved for kings, princes and upper-class, or a need to move more cars with people inside, or ncora the "means transport "necessary to express mail to reach mee ditanti in a short time, or time-consuming element of a weapons of war. The horse would have corresponded in the past that the car of today who drinks too much petrol and uneconomical, however, used mostly for reasons of prestige. The donkey in this oparagone corresponds rather to a scooter, with cu you can carry less, but that costs a lot less fuel.
But the donkey has always been at least in Europe is always a great friend of human transport: the simple needs, robust, sensitive, intelligent. It's more than a means of transport, is a friend, a fellow traveler.
Based on this type of shift personnel on foot with or without ass, and organized the topography of our landscape at distances of 5, up to a maximum of 30 km (1-day walk) there are towns, originally used to provide a shelter or assistance to the traveler who occasionally needs Refreshments, water, or other appropriate medical care.
course this experience, we may also consider how the fact that we have the means to fast and smooth roads cut off from our experience most of the places that have always been a wanderer for the obligatory: places of refreshment around which are born small human communities, points refreshed for the animals, the chapels of prayer for wayfarers, homes for the reception of the traveler. etc.. at the same time it happens that all human structures tend to concentrate in places increasingly unattainable man on foot, leaving a sad gap between a center and more. The cities become more and more cities, and the environment non urban becomes more and more alien to human culture. The same men who pass in their vehicles from one place to another often are not considered part of the environment through estanno c and therefore tend to ignore anything that happens outside of their cab harvester. To expand a bit 'of this concept would be more useful to read what he wrote this esteemed Dutch friend, who one day took a walk and hitchhike between Verona and Trento, and to realize that such things to us from sedentary ( at home or on the seat of a car / bus / train / plane), or completely overlooked:
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