Foncebadon to Ponferrada - part two

What followed was a bit more climbing, to the highest point of the whole Camino, then a 1200m elevation change coming down over the next 10 or so kilometres which was humbling on the knees but truly breathtaking. The buildings in these (to borrow from Yates) 'bee-loud' villages show, as much as the landscapes, that we have travelled to a different region. Rammed earth is out, stones and wooden balconies are in. They are beautiful and quiet and half for sale. It swells and bruises your heart.

The whole thing actually felt like I was in one of those videos you can watch on the gym treadmill, which made me realise I could probably have made mad bank by strapping a Go Pro to me and hocking the footage for that purpose. Speaking of under-explored revenue streams, there is SURELY a market for Camino feet pics and dare I say, undergarments. I can't really be bothered, but it might be lucrative. I could sell my socks?Read more