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Camino Santiago de Compostella

Over 3 years in planning, delayed 1 year by COVID I am humbly embarking on a 500 miles Spiritual and Religious Pilgrimage walking the Camino Frances route Les mer
  • San Xulian do Camino

    22. juni 2022, Spania ⋅ ☁️ 52 °F

    Nowhere to run to baby...
    Ridiculously short stage today so a very late start and desayuno numero uno in albergue restaurant.
    The morning staple:
    Zuma, Grande coffee con Leche, Tortilla bravas

    Today I'm beginning to see a little bit more of the crowds if you will that were promised me I would see after Sarria
    also as promised most of them are Spanish and indeed lots of kids on school trips
    Les mer

  • B

    22. juni 2022, Spania ⋅ ☁️ 54 °F

    Daniel b. Mexico lives in AZ

  • E

    22. juni 2022, Spania ⋅ ☁️ 55 °F

    Inglesia de Santa Maria de Leboreiro
    Gothic church that also features some coceptions characteristic of the Romanesque style. It has a rectangular nave and circular apse; its main façade stands out, with an arch and ogival archivolts. The interior features a 14th century image of Our Lady. There is also a panel of mural painting made in the second third of the 16th century, with depictions of the Flagellation of Christ, the Visitation of Mary to St. Elizabeth and the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian.

    Cool bridge to cross
    Les mer

  • Melide

    22. juni 2022, Spania ⋅ ☁️ 59 °F

    Entering Melide Daniel and I say our goodbyes as he pressed on to Arzua while I was at my destination du jour.

    Almost immediately after I crossed the bridge a Spanish couple stuck a small convention with me. When they heard that I started in St.Jean Pied-de-Port they insisted to buy me a beer. Turned out their party was 3 sisters and their husbands..husband's... AND they were from Barcelona!
    Estrella Galicia went down smooooooothly
    😁

    After dinner we did more exploration of Melide
    Les mer

  • GARNACHA Pulperia

    22. juni 2022, Spania ⋅ 🌧 64 °F

    When in Rome do as Romans do
    When in Melide one MUST eat pulpo..and so the 3 of us went to the nearest Pulperia where I ran into Heather from NYC. We haven't seen each other from Pamplona!!!!

    Juan our waiter

    Sopa Gallego
    Pulpo a con planchet y pan
    Les mer

  • Melide morning

    23. juni 2022, Spania ⋅ 🌧 52 °F

    Well another rainy day is in the forecast only this time it looks like it will go on all day 🥲
    Meanwhile the daily game now is to get in front of all Spanish school field trips' kids that do start from Sarria and usually walk to Santiago for about 1 full week.
    Most of the time they start around 8:00am so I got out just before 7:00 ang get desayuno numero uno
    Les mer

  • A

    23. juni 2022, Spania ⋅ 🌧 54 °F

    1 hour later it is still just cloudy and misty but I can feel the rain coming.
    I descend onto forest path where trees form an entry arch and after that the path leads Bob Ross like only we knows where ...
    Rainy, misty damp days are not Pilgrim's friends.
    The Pilgrim's day is reasonably simple- get up, walk, get to next albergue, shower, do wash...
    The problem here is that 99% of the time you hang you clothes to dry in any available open place (courtyards, meadows, balconies, decks,etc.) Where the nice sunshine will take care of business in no time flat
    If ir rains you cannot do wash and you cant do dry outside so you dry inside and it's never fully dry and everything becomes damp ...
    Les mer

  • A Peroxa Boente

    23. juni 2022, Spania ⋅ 🌧 54 °F

    It is beginning to rain quite more steadily now and unfortunately it will stay with me for the whole duration so I ducked into this place for earlier desayuno numero duo and had a very nice Bocadillo Tortilla Francés

    Met Carlos and Veronica from Italy

    Inglesia Boente
    Les mer

  • Going up on Camino

    23. juni 2022, Spania ⋅ 🌧 55 °F

    Is like USPS
    It never stops

  • Boente

    23. juni 2022, Spania ⋅ 🌧 55 °F
  • Ribaldiso

    23. juni 2022, Spania ⋅ 🌧 57 °F

    A very old bridge
    Blue door number 2 (hmmm... now its more Jackson Pollock than Picasso)

    Lazy rainy day becomes a binging day.... Desayuno numero tres 😬

    On the other side of the town I ran again into 2 ladies from Orrison whom I last saw in Burgos.
    Finally got to ask them their names
    Yaro and Marielle from Brazil
    They told me that Manuel made into Santiago yesterday and took a selfie of 3 of us to send to him.... Stupid me should have given them my phone number to pass to him
    Les mer

  • Arzua

    23. juni 2022, Spania ⋅ 🌧 57 °F

    Arzua is famous for its cheese so the statue shows hands offering us cheese

    Some cheese samples in the local bar

    Inglesia de Santiago de Arzua and Capella Maria Magdalene

    Hello another Spanish old friend 😃Les mer

  • Albergue

    23. juni 2022, Spania ⋅ 🌧 57 °F

    Totally awesome place
    Each bunk set up with descend amount of privacy, has it's own electricity, actual linnen and towels and plenty of space for everyone
    There is a cool little inner courtyard that would've been neat to hangout if the weather was nice...

    After dinners Annette (Netherlands), AnneMarie (Ireland), Milosz Paula and I are playing Jengo
    Les mer

  • Cena numero uno

    23. juni 2022, Spania ⋅ 🌧 61 °F

    And thankfully the only one
    Milosz Paula and I had a wonderful time

    Chicken noodles soup
    Raja (there is a 1st time for everything)
    For curious minds lookie here:
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raja_(fish)

    And I forgot the pic of raspberry cheesecake

    Interesting faucets and a spooky man in the WC
    Les mer

  • Very very very late....

    24. juni 2022, Spania ⋅ ☁️ 54 °F

    I guess playing games last night did a number on us because every one of us got up extremely late and then just decided to have whatever breakfast was available in the albergue
    We met David and Anna from NY

    Milosz and Paula we're really late because they decided to finish off the out meal that they cooked last night so the rest of us headed on our way
    Les mer