Day 5: Najera
2022年7月21日, スペイン ⋅ ☀️ 35 °C
Najera wraps up our hot day walks over 30km. Tomorrow’s leg to Santo Domingo de la Calzada is only a 22km day, ending in one of the more interesting towns along the Camino Frances.
We have theもっと詳しく
A morning walk
2022年7月22日, スペイン ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
It won’t get hot as badly as the last few days, but we still started early to beat the masses and see the sunrise over La Rioja. We were not disappointed.
Everyone feels great.
Up the hill
2022年7月22日, スペイン ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
A little song makes everything go better.
Sto. Domingo de la Calzada
2022年7月22日, スペイン ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
The church is dedicated to Domingo, a monk who developed most of the area. It is super lavish, which feels odd, considering the relative frugality of the hamlets around it.
It houses a pen with aもっと詳しく
Following Arrows
2022年7月23日, スペイン ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
Most of the Camino is a mix of following arrows and following shells. Not all are as elaborate as this one, and some are well hidden or have been stolen, but getting lost on the 900 kilometer trek isもっと詳しく
Contemplations
2022年7月23日, スペイン ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
It’s a week now, and this year’s Camino is nothing like any of those I walked prior. While there is a small group of pilgrims forming that try to walk or dine together, most walking and dining isもっと詳しく
Sunrise, Day 8
2022年7月24日, スペイン ⋅ ☀️ 35 °C
Today will be a slightly more strenuous day, compared to yesterday’s walk in the park. 27km, which is OK, but 38°C and no stops for most of it.
Right now it’s cool and fun to walk. We’ll seeもっと詳しく
Forest
2022年7月24日, スペイン ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
What threatened to be a hot and dusty day was made much more bearable by long stretches of forest that broke up the red clay paths leading into the Atapuerca Valley. Here archeologists discovered theもっと詳しく
Breakfast
2022年7月25日, スペイン ⋅ 🌙 13 °C
Breakfast with Maria and Esther and Gerhard from Spain and Holland.
Today we’re starting a little later and will stop on Burgos for the museum of human evolution.
Atapuerca
2022年7月25日, スペイン ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C
1200000 years of human history have been found on this hill, from the first Europeans to the scars of the battle of Atapuerca and the graves of Franco’s reign of terror.
Burgos
2022年7月25日, スペイン ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
We’re not staying here. Passing through, looking at the city of El Cid and the gateway to the Meseta.
Day Nine
2022年7月25日, スペイン ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
I am in Tardajos, the gateway to the Meseta. Today was a strange day. It was an easy walk, mostly downhill except for a brief climb across Atapuerca (see last Footprint). It is July 25, the day of St.もっと詳しく
My hostel bed for tonight
2022年7月25日, スペイン ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
My Hostel bed for tonight. The lower bunk, a luxury on the Camino, near a window for airflow, and with extra pillow height. On the Camino, that’s the definition of heaven.
Meseta
2022年7月26日, スペイン ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C
My walk of the Meseta has begun. A cool wind pushes me forward, and the endless wheat fields seem to wave me towards my goal for the day, Hontanas. It is getting flatter and the only mental excitementもっと詳しく
San Bol and Hontanas
2022年7月26日, スペイン ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Todays 23 kilometer flew by. After a stop in Hornillos to recharge the empty coffee battery, the way just rolled a bit and led to San Bol, where I cooled my feet and rested in the shade until it wasもっと詳しく
Albergue for the Night
2022年7月26日, スペイン ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Ruins of San Anton
2022年7月27日, スペイン ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C
A former hospital for pilgrims, San Anton had fallen into bad disrepair until the 90e, when an albergue for pilgrims was opened.
Castrojeriz
2022年7月27日, スペイン ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
After only 12 kilometer this is my stop for the day. I dislike rest days and prefer short ones instead, and Castrojeriz is small enough to be relaxing but big enough to entertain me for the afternoon.
Day 11, the endless expanse
2022年7月27日, スペイン ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
The Meseta is the great divider of the Camino. Not just in terms of it being its midpoint, but also as the thing dividing emotions: some hate it for its wide fields of nothingness, others (like me)もっと詳しく
4am Coffee
2022年7月28日, スペイン ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
We get up early to avoid the afternoon heat, and 4am freshly brewed coffee and toast are about the greatest of things that can happen to a pilgrim.
It’s funny how this small things make us happyもっと詳しく
Sunrise
2022年7月28日, スペイン ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
Woke up, climbed up the hill and froze my ass off for a good 20 minutes. But the sunrise made it all worth it.
RIP Camino Ninja
2022年7月28日, スペイン ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
A sad update, one I never wanted to write. On this Camino and others, I’ve used and use Camino Ninja, an amazing app that shows me just the things I need and nothing else. It is the brain child ofもっと詳しく
Boadilla de Camino
2022年7月28日, スペイン ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C
Four years ago this albergue was the best on the Camino. It had a pool, a beer garden, pilgrims were sitting and laughing.
Today the albergue and garden are closed. The three pilgrims are housedもっと詳しく
Late start from Boadilla
2022年7月29日, スペイン ⋅ 🌙 13 °C
It’s almost 6:30 and I am not on the road yet. The bed was comfy and the dreams oh so sweet.
I was in fact woken up by the clattering of storks on the church nearby, a welcome change from pilgrimsもっと詳しく


























































The "Body" stage doesn't end until one month after you get home. LOL [Gina]