On my way!
7 апреля, Канада ⋅ 🌧 8 °C
The adventure begins!🎒
I am about to board my first flight. Edmonton to Montreal 🛫👋
The next step
8 апреля, Канада ⋅ ☁️ -1 °C
Soon I will board my next flight, this one to Madrid. My cousin Larry was kind enough to come to the airport and help me to pass the time today. Ten hours is a long time to wait.
And what do youЧитать далее
España 🇪🇸
9 апреля, Испания ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
Two sleepless nights in a rows is taking a toll! But tonight I have a private room!
I arrived in Madrid 🛫 about 6:45 a.m. (10:45 p.m. Edmonton time) and made my way to the train 🚆 station.Читать далее
Exploring León
9 апреля, Испания ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C
A shower and a change of clothes felt wonderful after 48 hours of travel! I set out to explore León. I saw my first Camino marker, stopped in at the Basilica San Isidoro, then Catedral León. It isЧитать далее
Day 1 - Leon to Oncina
10 апреля, Испания ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C
I had SUCH a good sleep! And the hotel provided a filling breakfast. I was in no rush today, so I didn’t start to walk until about 10:00.
Walking out of León was easy but via sidewalks andЧитать далее
Day 2 - Oncina to Hospital de Orbigo
11 апреля, Испания ⋅ ☀️ 8 °C
Today I walked 25 km, a lot further than I have walked for a long time. But it was fairly flat, about half on dirt roads and half on pavement.
I stopped twice - once for café con leche and tortillaЧитать далее
Day 3 - Hospital de Orbigo to Astorga
12 апреля, Испания ⋅ ☁️ 9 °C
There was light rain today, so I tested my rain gear. It was sufficient. My boots are a bit muddy though. The trail was on gravel roads quite a bit, with a red dirt. And more hills as well.
TheЧитать далее
Astorga
12 апреля, Испания ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
I met up with Llew, who will be my partner volunteering at the albergue. We went to see the Gaudi Camino Museum, which was once a Bishop’s Palace. Lots of history and art.
Some artifacts were fromЧитать далее
Palm Sunday in Astorga
13 апреля, Испания ⋅ ☀️ 10 °C
I managed to watch the Palm Sunday procession here in Astorga this morning. This is one of the things I was looking forward to in Spain 🇪🇸 and I was not disappointed.
It wasn’t huge, twoЧитать далее
More Astorga
13 апреля, Испания ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
Other than observing Palm Sunday, I spent some time wandering around, enjoyed a café con leche with a slice of Tarte de Manzana 🍎. This is a walled city and had lovely views from the wall. TheЧитать далее
Astorga to Rabanal del Camino
14 апреля, Испания ⋅ ☁️ 7 °C
This is the day we arrived at the albergue we are to be volunteering at for a bit over two weeks. It was a 20 km walk, mostly up hill.
I had an oops with my garmin and accidentally turned it off atЧитать далее
Hospitalera Training Day
15 апреля, Испания ⋅ ☁️ 1 °C
Peter and Fiona, the outgoing volunteers, trained us for our duties today and introduced us to Susana at the tienda (shop).
It was snowing when the first pilgrim left before light, and continues toЧитать далее
Hospitalera Day 1
15 апреля, Испания ⋅ ⛅ 2 °C
Fiona and Peter left this morning so it is just Llew and me to run the show now. We had 14 pilgrims last night.
I get to clean the upstairs and Llew does the downstairs. My part includes theЧитать далее
Hospitalera Day 2
17 апреля, Испания ⋅ ⛅ 5 °C
I won’t bore you with the same details every day. Today the clean up was a bit quicker though, so I had time to walk around the village.
Also, the weather is much more pleasant today, so I canЧитать далее
Hospitalera Day 3
18 апреля, Испания ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C
Today started out with decent weather, then around 11:30 it started to rain and the temperature has dropped since then. There is more snow forecast tonight.
When we opened at 1:00 we had eightЧитать далее
Hospitalera Day 4
19 апреля, Испания ⋅ ☁️ 1 °C
Sorry to go on about the weather. Today is forecast to be the coldest day, then tomorrow slightly warmer. We might even get into double digits by Monday or Tuesday.
Today I decided to bake lemonЧитать далее
Hospitalera Day 5
20 апреля, Испания ⋅ ☀️ 6 °C
Happy Easter Sunday! The sky is much more clear today and we can see plenty of snow on the nearby mountains.
How many can say they have been to Easter Sunday service in a 12th century churchЧитать далее
Hospitalera Day 6
21 апреля, Испания ⋅ ☁️ 6 °C
My family asked for more donkey so I decided that Diego could help with my chores.
Most of our pilgrims were European today, but we did have one from Mexico 🇲🇽 and two bicigrinos fromЧитать далее
Hospitalera Day 7
22 апреля, Испания ⋅ ⛅ 5 °C
It’s hard to believe that we have been here for a week now! Today the sun is shining and the temperature is up to a balmy high of 14 degrees today!
Llew placed an order with our neighbouringЧитать далее
Hospitalera Day 8
23 апреля, Испания ⋅ 🌙 5 °C
Having a small group of pilgrims made the cleanup easier, and we were finished in record time.
The sun is shining today so I hung the washing on the line in the garden. It dried very quickly.
IЧитать далее
Hospitalera Day 9
24 апреля, Испания ⋅ 🌙 7 °C
Last night’s pilgrims were a bit slow to get going. Especially one fellow who forgot some clothes on the line in the garden, and then ended up forgetting some other things beside his bunk. Oh, well,Читать далее
Hospitalera Day 10
25 апреля, Испания ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
I have a total of 18 hospitalera days at Gaucelmo, so I won’t be upset if you get a little bored. Each day is much the same, but the pilgrims each day are so diverse and interesting. We did have aЧитать далее
Hospitalera Day 11
26 апреля, Испания ⋅ ☀️ 8 °C
Some of yesterday’s pilgrims were pigs. Usually people are quite tidy and considerate. Not so with a couple of the people from last night. It didn’t help that they spent the whole afternoonЧитать далее
Hospitalera Day 12
27 апреля, Испания ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
Almost everyone slept well last night, and the cleaning was very easy today.
Yesterday Larry asked about the mountain in some of my photos, so I have added a screenshot of my best guess. PicoЧитать далее
Hospitalera Day 13
28 апреля, Испания ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
Another beautiful sunny spring day in Rabanal de Camino! With a small glitch of a power outage. Hopefully it is solved before tea time❤️🫖☕️.
At least we are done all the cleaning, whichЧитать далее






















































































































































































































































































































































ПутешественникBrutal way to start, a red-eye flight and only two time zones! Glad to see you have begun the new adventure.🥾
ПутешественникThanks. Now for another overnight flight with six more time zones.
ПутешественникBuen Camino!