Trying to find info on a late-Roman historical account

I remember reading, probably on Wikipedia, about an account of someone traveling around Italy and Gaul around the late 4th-early 5th century AD. I think it might have mentioned that he had to not directly go through Italy and instead sailed around it due to the barbarian threat there at the time. I can't remember if the one who was traveling was a trader, official, priest, etc. I thought it was an interesting first-hand look at how things were at that time for this area of the Roman west. I tried a Google and Wikipedia search but both failed. Would anyone here know what/who I might be referring to?

To keep this coin-related (not that the mods will put up a fuss about it, given the subject matter of my question, just want to make this thread more interesting and relatable), let's post our Roman coins from the late 4th-early 5th century AD (western mints especially).

Jovinus



Valentinian I



Theodosius I



Valens



Honorius




Flavius Victor



Magnus Maximus (very old photo)



Eugenius



I have more but I'll just post the above.

 

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You may be referring to the travels of Libanius of Antioch who wrote over 1500 letters with many of them detailing his travels though he may not have made it that far west.

There is a book on travel in late antiquity that might interest you if you can find it second hand or cheap somewhere. It's a bit pricey on Amazon.

Travel, Communication and Geography in Late Antiquity: Sacred and Profane

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Also I don't think this is what your looking for but here is an interesting link about the travel itinerary of an anonymous pilgrim in the year 333 AD

http://www.christusrex.org/www1/ofm/pilgr/bord/10Bord01MapEur.html

Another possibility might be Prudentius who was a Spanish Christian Poet in the late fifth century who travelled extensively and left some accounts of his travels between west and east.

 

Well that was fast! Hopefully the info Curtisimo provided was accurate.

I can't help you with your question but here's a Valens for the thread:

 

Very interesting question. Can't really add much to the conversation except for that I enjoy reading the works of Ammianus Marcellinus which pretty much covers the earlier part of the period in question.