Scotland to Spain

mars - mai 2024

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Voyageur Scotland to Spain
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- 11 mars 2024, 08:01
- ☁️ 4 °C
- Altitude: 16 m
- Écosse Stirling Stirling Railway Station, Scotland 56.12049, -3.93524756°7’14” N 3°56’7” W
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Vancouver to London
11 mars, Écosse ⋅ ☁️ 4 °C
I flew from Vancouver to Calgary and then on to London via a WestJet 787 Dreamliner.
Easily walked through customs no lineup at all. Found the Piccadilly Sub and went to Kings Crossing.

I caught the 1600 train to Edinburgh however it arrives at 21:30......5 1/2 hours. They are doing maintenance work on the line unfortunately.

So a long day. It is very wet and cold here. People are complaining about the weather.

Fingers crossed it is supposed to be nice this week.

Found my hostel after walking a km from Waverly Station.

Very clean , cosy and quiet🤗💕En savoir plus
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Voyageur Two pubs within a block of your hostel Nice.
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Voyageur Terrific start! Hope the retreat stage went well - I look forward to updates.
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Voyageur Fascinating architecture & streets. So different from home & different again from where I was in Columbia. Little chance of such empty streets there - people, people, people & busy & noisy +++
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- 11 mars 2024, 09:18
- ☁️ 5 °C
- Altitude: 62 m
- Écosse Stirling Dunblane Dunblane Railway Station 56.184176, -3.96231556°11’3” N 3°57’44” W
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Edinburgh to Dunblane
11 mars, Écosse ⋅ ☁️ 5 °C
Took the train from Edinburgh to Dunblane. Joanna is going to pick me up which saves me a walk of 2 km after a bus trip😉

Very cloudy, dreary and cold.
Beautiful countryside and sooooo many sheep
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Voyageur I love the colors!
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Voyageur So inviting for exploration....
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- 26 mars 2024, 06:44
- ☁️ 2 °C
- Altitude: 20 m
- Écosse Edinburgh Turnhouse Edinburgh Airport 55.94911, -3.35745155°56’57” N 3°21’27” W
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Jour 18
Solitude to Sightseeing
26 mars, Écosse ⋅ ☁️ 2 °C
I completed my 2 week Retreat in the midst of a forest. Owls were my night time companions lulling me to sleep with their to calls. Various birds sang to awaken me.

I then travelled down to Edinburgh where I took in some sights. What a beautiful city. I would make it a destination next time.

I am en route to London and then on to Cologne Germany.
I am so excited as I will be greeted by the end of this day with my Camino Del Norte friend Anja 🥰En savoir plus
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Voyageur Not sure which one I like better the ram or the yew tree. Both are great.
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Voyageur Ah - that looks like our yard. We have several like that to clean up soon.
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Voyageur Yes - beautiful!!
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- 26 mars 2024, 20:53
- 🌙 7 °C
- Altitude: 185 m
- Allemagne Hessen Weimar (Lahn)Niederweimar 50.759581, 8.72975450°45’34” N 8°43’47” E
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Jour 18
Niederweimer Germany
26 mars, Allemagne ⋅ 🌙 7 °C
Arrived in Marburg at 2045 pm. Very long day starting at 4am. from Edinburgh.

I had smooth flight connections but found the train system challenging in Germany. I accidentally missed getting off at a stop but a kind woman happened to glance at my ticket and told me to get off and go back a stop.

This mistake added another hour to my trip but at least I made my connecting train at Frankfurt. Who knows where I would have ended up!

Anja was at the train station to take me to her home. It is a ten minute drive away.

The next day we walked around her neiborhood and went to see where both of her daughter's worked. One works TCA clothing store and the other on a farm..

We went to Marburg the next day to see the castle that the famous Saint Elisabeth lived in. Then we climbed the messenger tower ( 140 steps) across from the castle to see views of Marburg and the surrounding area. We had coffee in an adorable cafe at the bottom of the tower.En savoir plus
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Voyageur Marburg looks very charming and quaint.
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Voyageur Quite the church. Just read about it.
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Voyageur What a quaint spot!
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Voyageur So fascinating to see different architecture, etc. in different cultures.
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- 29 mars 2024, 16:37
- 🌫 11 °C
- Altitude: 176 m
- Allemagne Hessen Weimar (Lahn)Niederweimar 50.75977, 8.72965750°45’35” N 8°43’47” E
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Jour 21
Torte and Cafe
29 mars, Allemagne ⋅ 🌫 11 °C
Raining and very gloomy. Decided to take a walk in the woods as Anja was not feeling very well.

Afterwards Anja drove me through beautiful little villages . She once worked with an architect and showed me very old homes that were restored.

We stopped at an adorable cafe for coffee and a slice of cake. There were so many to choose from.En savoir plus
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Voyageur Looks amazing!
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Voyageur That's really neat!
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Voyageur Beautiful!
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- 30 mars 2024, 15:20
- ☁️ 17 °C
- Altitude: 176 m
- Allemagne Hessen Weimar (Lahn)Niederweimar 50.759768, 8.72965650°45’35” N 8°43’47” E
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Jour 22
Chickens on the Run
30 mars, Allemagne ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
We left at 10 this morning to go to a quaint cafe and garden.

On the way, Anja pointed out a chicken camper in a field. The people that Lilli works for move there chickens (by flatbeds on trucks) to different areas so they can be free range. They have 7 campers and 5,000 birds!!!

The eggs that they collect are sent to the factory to be hardboiled and covered to preserve them for 3 weeks!!
They put goats in with the birds to go after the Hawks that try to get the birds.

We went to a Hardware Store that has the sign meaning, "Where screws live."

We toured the small garden at the cafe and came home.

Lilli is very busy making raised beds for her vegetables and planting many seeds.

Madrid tomorrow!En savoir plus
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Voyageur What an interesting system for free range. Lilli seems very enterprising.
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Voyageur Love this!
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Voyageur So clever!
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Voyageur Fascinating - the chickens & the goats & the free range system. Sure beats our efforts at chicken wire wall & roof, with electric wire, that all gets wrecked by heavy snow & visiting bears, etc. How lovely to have such quality time with Anja & learn the culture & countryside!
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- 1 avr. 2024, 15:11
- ☀️ 12 °C
- Altitude: 663 m
- Espagne Madrid Sol Puerta del Sol 40.417057, -3.70413640°25’1” N 3°42’15” W
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Madrid to Leon
1 avril, Espagne ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C
Flew from Frankfurt airport to Madrid. I then took a train to Leon .

I didn't take many pictures as it was raining and very cold.
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Voyageur Didn't realize the Madrid area was so green. What random stuff are you sending home?
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Voyageur Wow it's very flat there
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- 3 avr. 2024, 20:12
- ☁️ 13 °C
- Altitude: 846 m
- Espagne Castilla y León Astorga 42.454627, -6.04911542°27’17” N 6°2’57” W
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Jour 26
Leon to Astorga
3 avril, Espagne ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
I took the bus from Leon to Astorga. I arrived early so was able to have time to walk around.

Saw the Gaudi Palace. It looks like a castle out of Disney.

Sunny day. Leaving tomorrow to walk to Rabanal. I am very excited.En savoir plus
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Voyageur Wow, Astorga looks really nice.
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Voyageur Yes, Disney does come to mind!
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Voyageur Wow!
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- 4 avr. 2024, 14:32
- ☁️ 13 °C
- Altitude: 1 164 m
- Espagne Castilla y León Santa Colomba de Somoza Rabanal del Camino 42.481881, -6.2846642°28’55” N 6°17’5” W
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Astorga to Rabanal 20.9 km
4 avril, Espagne ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
Had breakfast with 3 women from Toulouse France. Excited to start walking again.

Great day with beautiful scenery. I was very tired at the end of 20.9 km. I was greete enthusiastically by Fiona and Andrew who were Hospitalaros from the UK.

They served tea and home made treats at 5 pm. They started a wonderful fire for us as it became chilly as soon as the sun went down.

The showers were wonderful!! I met pilgrims from Spain, Germany, USA New York and the UK.

I saw maybe 12 pilgrims during the walk today.En savoir plus
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Voyageur The albergue looks very cozy.
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Voyageur You must be special then, though I already knew that!
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Voyageur I just love little villages & villas, especially the rock work.
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- 5 avr. 2024, 18:26
- ☁️ 22 °C
- Altitude: 599 m
- Espagne Castilla y León Molinaseca 42.538563, -6.5255942°32’19” N 6°31’32” W
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Jour 28
Rabanal to Molinesca 26.75 km
5 avril, Espagne ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C
Had a great sleep and breakfast tostada with marmalade.

Gave Fiona and Andrew big hugs and headed out

So the up was very wet and muddy due to Spring runoff.
The down was extremely challenging because of the jagged awkward rocks making one very slow in maneuvering them. It seemed to go on forever.

Beautiful views of the different valleys. Snow on mountaintops.

Wild flowers are blooming all over including Heather. I am really enjoying Spring here.

Still not too many Pilgrims. It kind of reminds me of the Primitive trail minus the horrible rocks .

Cruz de Ferro was a. Huge disappointment for me as I was expecting it on the top of a mountain and it is not at all like that. One lady I met actually thought it was something else as the Cross on the very top w.as so small. Needless to say she didn't leave a rock there. I did with my message.

So far this walk is nothing that I thought it would be.....very interesting to see what tomorrow brings.En savoir plus
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Voyageur Showed your picture to Theodor. He was impressed with all the rocks.
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Voyageur Yuck - mud.
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