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  • TravelerCamino 2025
    Day 8

    Day 7 Espinosa del Camino

    April 9 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C

    After a 31km day I am staying with the local German cat lady. I think there are 10-15 cats running around and she's following me around with a cleaning cloth. I hope she's just the cat lady and not the crazy cat lady🤣🤣.
    Today, as last year, is my least favorite walk. Road construction, path by the highway with lots of big trucks, very little shade BUT there were way less people. Maybe I left too.late yesterday at 7:30, today I left today at 7am. Well the cat lady is making me supper, hope it's appetizing.
    Shorter day tomorrow then Friday I walk to the Burgos train station. Time is flying..
    Oh I forgot, hope you didn't get all that snow?, here it's day 2 in shorts😎    Read more

  • Trip to Italy and Spain
    2
    Day 59

    Carrying on to Leon

    April 1 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 72 °F

    We had 11 pilgrims last night and another great dinner. Phil and I taught the hospitaleros as much as we knew and headed out late this morning.

    We stopped at the bakery to get our t-shirts and say goodbye to the bakery team of Susanna, Chuchi, and Chuchi's dad. It was a beautiful sunny day. We stopped once for a sandwich and a soda.

    We are in the village of Villoria de Camino. This is the birthplace of St. Domingo who built bridges and roads for pilgrims in the 9th century. We are sitting in the sun watching tractors roll by.

    It was such a beautiful day compared to our pre-hospitalero walking. I hope it holds. We'll walk a few weeks before heading to Zamora for Easter.    Read more

  • TravelerCamino Frances & Europe
    121
    Day 18

    Azofra to Castildelgado

    September 17, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C

    We walked through farmland again. We stayed in a place that isn’t even really a village in someone’s home. Walking through tiny villages. It feels less prosperous area, not as much money around. Less shops & cafes and life, harder to buy things. I have been in a harder place as concerned about Ed. I found a very hidden away little shortbread shop in Grañón, a village with barely any shops, or at least they were not visible because it was siesta time. Spanish villages are deserted in the afternoons and it’s hard to buy anything. I bought lots of shortbread and mango cake. I like to have snacks in my pack, especially now as the villages are thinning out and we might go for many hours without access to much. Big change from previous days.Read more

  • Camino
    11
    Day 15

    Day 12 - Azofra to Castildelgado

    August 26, 2024 in Spain ⋅ 🌙 19 °C

    My wife is a beast, we went 19 miles today. Granted it was without out packs, but she was on fire. I spent most of the day behind her because she was walking so fast, all with a bum ankle. Me being me, I had to throw out those classic pick-up up lines like " can I have a burger with that shake", she did laugh and blamed it on her ankle.

    We passed out of the wine country and back into farmland. Lots of cut grain fields, some green beans and even some hop fields today. It was easy walking during the morning due to overcast sky's, but it warmed up in the afternoon. The cathedral in Santo Domingo was amazing.
    We're at a nice albergue with great hosts. They cooked us dinner of soup, beef stew, and a flan. Oh yeah, and plenty of wine.

    Tomorrow will be a shorter day, I hope.    Read more

  • TravelerMad’s Camino De Santiago
    12
    Day 8

    17.8mi Nàjera to Grañon

    August 13, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C

    I left Nàjera today and it was one of my favorite cities. The rock, river, and the streets of old town were beautiful. I had my best night sleep with the rain. I started off the day with Daka 🇿🇦. Then I stopped at a golf course to journal and felt a little ostracized. They wouldn’t give me the Wi-Fi password and all the club members looked at me funny. It was an interesting experience, but I’m grateful for it. It was a tough mental day and the thought definitely crossed my mind “Oh my gosh I have to do this for 20 more days!”. But that didn’t last long. I got to Grañon and ended up in the most beautiful hostel of yet. It was life-giving, a hostel of Pilgrims for pilgrims. We slept on mats on the floor and it was all donation based. Laurie, one of the volunteers, was from Illinois. We all went to mass together, made dinner together, played music and sang together, shared a delicious meal, did the dishes, and then had one of the most beautiful prayer services up in the choir loft of the old church. There were candles, and even though most people in the room weren’t religious, we shared why we were doing the Camino and prayed together. It was amazing. At the end, everyone gave each other hugs and there was maybe 30 people. Just what my heart needed to continue. I met so many beautiful people and I hope I continue to seeing them along the wayRead more

  • TravelerWalka'bout thru Spain & Italy
    11
    Day 13

    Day 10 to Belorado

    July 2, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C

    I can't believe it's day 10 already... the weather has been overcast with a slight breeze. How did we get so lucky? The trail today was pretty even. Not too many peaks or steep declines. As I celebrated another Bday, I did a lot of looking back at the last 40 yrs. I have a feeling that as I travel through this Camino journey, I will be doing a lot of it. At times, my eyes would feel up with tears, a big smile on my face with a little chuckel. An overwhelming feeling of gratitude would take over. Even as I type these words, the tears of joy stream down my face because this is no ordinary vacation. This is no ordinary hike. This is me, showing me what my best version looks like today 💪. I'm showing up, I'm working hard, and I'm making myself proud. And when I turn to look to my side, William is doing the same. 💓Read more

  • TravelerAlwaysonanadventure
    Day 19

    Belorado

    May 13, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C

    Day 11 Belorado
    Distance from Santo Domingo to Belorado 23 kms

    Walked out of Santo Domingo as the sun was rising and expected to be parallel with the N-120 highway and a not so quiet day. We were pleasantly surprised with wide tracks and rolling meadows with the occasional car noise from afar. Walking through the tiny villages with historic dwellings pretty houses with window boxes and run down rural hamlets with the strong smell of pigs and manure. Belorado is a small historic town built in a steep valley and against the limestone cliffs once home to hermits in cave dwellings.
    An enjoyable day the weather was warm and sunny and we toasted our arrival with an aperitif and the local rose. It would be rude not to.
    Heading to Villafranca tomorrow and a very short day of around 12kms. Almost a rest day!    Read more

  • TravelerCamino de Santiago
    22
    Day 14

    Santo Domingo de la Calzada to Tosantos

    April 5, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C

    I'd heard lots about the Catalan independence struggle, but nothing of Castilla y Leon, the "largest autonomous region in Spain with an area of 95,000 km² (11 times the region of Madrid) but a population of only 2.5 million (less than half that of Madrid)." Today took us into this region, where it sounds like we'll be for some time.

    Most of the day was spent adjacent to a highway undergoing significant roadworks, so not the prettiest stretch but still enjoyable, and the warmest so far - I think it got up to 27 degrees, with a beautiful breeze coming into Beldorado.

    The trouble with walking east to west is the sun starts behind you and sticks on your left the whole walking day. I'm going to look like I've been grasped firmly by my right hip and dip-dyed in fake tan by the end of this. I forgot how easy it is to tan here, and that UV can even be 0.

    I met and walked for about 5km with Matt, some sort of investment person from Sydney, to the extent that I comprehend the notion of 'raising capital' and $100m deals. Apparently we started from SJPP on the same day, but haven't seen each other as he spent one night in an albergue and was so disrupted by a snorer he's been in hotels since.

    We found ourselves in agreement on three things in particular.

    1. The Americans are incredibly annoying and lack any self awareness whatsoever.

    2. The landscapes of the last few days in the Rioja have been incredible, and appreciated slightly more than Navarro because of their difference to home.

    3. We dunno what to do about the Metesa - the sparsely populated, flat, arid, (sotto voce) allegedly boring, ~200km stretch between Burgos and Leon. We might have worked out an approach, more on it later, and he gave me his number and told me to let him know.

    Today's stage technically ends 22.4km from Santo Domingo, in Beldorado. I decided to push on a further 4.8km to Tosanto (pop. 60) so I could do the same overshoot the following day, leaving less to walk on the day I get to Burgos and therefore more time to explore it.

    It's my first time staying off stage, and my first time in a 'donativo' an experience which will get its own post.    Read more

  • TravelerCAMINO 2023
    1
    231
    Day 12

    That long ass name place > Belorado

    October 12, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C

    Another day with zero obligations but get up, walk, mess around, sleep 😌 Also found out this kiwi woman I'd been chatting to a couple times was the casual winner of 4 world opens in squash and had been on celebrity treasure island as you do??!!Read more

  • TravelerCamino de Santiago
    2
    2
    Day 15

    Cirueña to Viloria de Rioja 21km 6.5 hrs

    September 19, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C

    Day 11 on the Camino. The last couple of days we have walked through small villages that are almost deserted, ghost town like. I think it is the Camino that keeps them alive. When we walked through the larger village of Santo Domingo this morning, 3 men walked through the streets playing instruments to announce the beginning of a festival. It seems there is always a party going on here. We walked a bit with Orin from Ireland.
    Dinner tonight at our albergue will paella. Yum

    Just a side note….This morning we left a little later than normal so we were the last pilgrims out of the albergue. Our friend Cécile discovered that someone had taken her shoes. Can you believe they were the same shoe, same size just the sole was worn differently. The day was spent trying to find the people who were in our albergue last night. We think we have found them in a town 7km down the road …. Stay tuned.

    UPDATE: Cécile took a taxi and found her shoes from a reluctant pilgrim who accidentally took the wrong shoes. Quite a story! Well done Sleuth Cécile!!    Read more

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