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Resenär France, Spain & England 2023
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- 7 okt. 2023 12:32
- ⛅ 79 °F
- Höjd över havet: 972 m
- Spanien Castilla y León Arlanzón Agés 42.3698, -3.47852842°22’11” N 3°28’43” W
Dag 28
Villafranca to Atapuerca
7 oktober 2023, Spanien ⋅ ⛅ 79 °F
After yesterday’s fiasco, (me almost not making it from Belorado to Villafranca) I let Roel start today’s walk on his own, because there was a severe ascent for the first several kilometers out of town until San Juan de Ortega. I took a cab and met him at the bar in San Juan, he made it in such good time! He had a hard climb, but then afterwards, a couple of kilometers of good level path and he was quite happy when he came strolling in to meet me at the bar Marcella.
After a short break, we continued on together for the last 6 km into Atapuerca and I did fine. Hopefully, tomorrow I can do the entire route. (But I’m still shipping my bag ahead!)

Atapuerca is a small town just 20 km from the much bigger city of Burgos. It is also the site of a major archaeological dig where many discoveries have been made about human evolution. We are staying in a Casa Rural here with a few other pilgrims. The owner told us that this house used to be a chicken coop on the ground floor and the owner lived on the upper floors but the old chicken coop is now the dining room, and the chickens are now housed across the alley.Läs mer
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Resenär 2023 Passport Chronicles
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- 23 aug. 2023
- ☀️ 35 °C
- Höjd över havet: 972 m
- Spanien Castilla y León Arlanzón Agés 42.36983, -3.47865842°22’11” N 3°28’43” W
Dag 22
Camino Day 12: Belorado to Agés
23 augusti 2023, Spanien ⋅ ☀️ 35 °C
Total Distance: 26.2km
Step Count: 33.9k
Blisters to date: 2
Tortillas to date: 13

The heatwave was still in full swing so I woke up at 5:00am to start walking again. I powered through like 12km, got some breakfast and started walking again with Xenia, a girl from Russia who’d be finishing her camino the next day in Burgos. We had a great chat at the brekkie stop and over the rest of the way to Santo Domingo which was the original destination.

Jorge and Meik had decided to walk together and caught up half way through leaving only dust behind them (as all tall people do!). The trail was nice and shady in the forest but full of annoying flies so we just powered through without any photo stops.

We were finally chillin’ at the first bar before finding our beds for the night but the town was very small and all the cool places to stay were already booked out. We had the option of more expensive accommodation but started talking to a Croatian man who ended up convincing us into walking another 4km to the next town which had more albergues.

We were beat from the heat but tagged along with him and another guy from Denmark, who we’d end up befriending and sharing lots of beers with over the next few days 🍻Läs mer
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Resenär Camino de Santiago
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- 17 juni 2023 21:12
- ☁️ 66 °F
- Höjd över havet: 3 209 ft
- Spanien Castilla y León Arlanzón Agés 42.37, -3.4842°22’12” N 3°28’48” W
Dag 21
Agés from Tosantos
17 juni 2023, Spanien ⋅ ☁️ 66 °F
The walk today turned unexpectedly sporty, but pretty.

We strolled flat wheat fields until Villafranca then started climbing into pine hills with black flies and little breeze.

It was pretty and challenging.

The path eventually sloped back down into a cute church and then some fields full of enormous cows before we arrived to Agés... Just before a tremendous storm.

I braved the tempest to find good food, beer and company (another post) then wrapped up the evening watching a stork and a church in late evening golden rain sparkled beauty.Läs mer
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Resenär Camino de Santiago
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- 17 juni 2023 16:50
- 🌩️ 73 °F
- Höjd över havet: 3 179 ft
- Spanien Castilla y León Arlanzón Agés 42.37, -3.47833342°22’12” N 3°28’42” W
Dag 21
Rain. Agés
17 juni 2023, Spanien ⋅ 🌩️ 73 °F
I'm sitting in a bustling bar where they serve the hipsteryist hamburgers I've seen since Oakland. Good beer, too.

It is pouring Wolves and Tigers outside with violent blasts of lightning and thunder. Fabulous! But certainly deters my urge to explore. I may just brave it.... After 2 days of monk-style living I want something shallower.

I'm feeling very aware of time-dilation. Can't quite wrap my head around the fact I left SFO just 18 days ago. It feels like so much more! And yet, that my life kind of crumbled out from under my feet about 3 months ago still feels recent. Strange. Let's not even unpack what happened a year ago. Time.... It is a slippery beast, that one.

And so I sit, waiting for a break in this savage storm (no exaggeration, this is a doozy) and debating between a 2nd beer or getting soaked to see what else (and who) is out there.

Among the fun aspects of this particular journey is how quickly people bond. An hour of chatting on the Camino, I know some people better than others with whom I've had casual connection for months, at home.Läs mer
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Resenär Camino de Santiago 2023
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- 17 maj 2023 08:24
- 🌬 5 °C
- Höjd över havet: 987 m
- Spanien Castilla y León Arlanzón Agés 42.371667, -3.4742°22’18” N 3°28’12” W
Dag 14
San Juan de Ortega to Burgos
17 maj 2023, Spanien ⋅ 🌬 5 °C
Got a taxi from my hotel and started walking where I finished off yesterday. Had breaks at Cardeñuela and Obanos. Weather was really cold but heated up as I got closer to Burgos. Spoke to a Dutch wifey who started her Camino 600km before I did so she will walk 1400km to Santiago. Had a chat with Gabriel, Maria, Rowena and Annie on the way. Burgos seems a great town. Got an apartment for 2 nights, it is perfect.Läs mer
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Resenär Camino de Santiago 2018
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- 7 maj 2018 19:02
- ☀️ 17 °C
- Höjd över havet: 3 205 ft
- Spanien Castilla y León Arlanzón Agés 42.369519, -3.47932642°22’10” N 3°28’46” W
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Villafranca Montes de Oca to Ages
7 maj 2018, Spanien ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
Hello from Ages, Spain...a small town, population 65 that is just east of the large city of Burgos. I left my very comfortable pensione this morning around 8am and after a long walk through a forest, I arrived in Ages at around 2:30. There were no hotels with inexpensive rooms..only albergues, which are getting tiresome because of the whole bunk room situation. So...I decided to haul the tent out of the bag and give that a try. I went to the local church...the 16th century Iglesia de Santa Eulalia....complete with a very large stork nest at the top. There was an elder Spanish woman who was apparently the overseer of the church and after explaining, mostly with sign language, that I wished to set my tent up in the courtyard, she was very happy to let me do so. This is the way that the Camino was done in the old days before the whole albergue infrastructure was in place....people stayed in church courtyards, hay lofts etc. As I write this, I am getting some dinner at a local cafe and using their WiFi. That is about it for now....tomorrow, I walk into Burgos. Take care all and thank you for checking in!Läs mer
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Resenär Good crowd watching over you Phil!
2018-05-07Svara
Resenär How peaceful!
2018-05-07Svara
Resenär I hope you're awake before they ring those bells!
2018-05-07Svara
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tomfox78 Jakobsweg 2018
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- 2 juni 2018 22:27
- 🌧 12 °C
- Höjd över havet: 979 m
- Spanien Castilla y León Arlanzón Agés 42.36963, -3.4792442°22’11” N 3°28’45” W
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Ages
2 juni 2018, Spanien ⋅ 🌧 12 °C
Die Nacht war ok, wenn auch kurz.... dar unser Grüppchen aus ziemlich vielen Verletzten oder Kranken besteht (mich eingeschlossen) 🤕🤧 sind die Italiener und ich schon um 6:45 Uhr aufgebrochen.

Es ging schleichend voran und diverse andere Pilger zogen an uns vorbei😳.... dennoch hatten wir Spaß und nach fast 7 Stunden sind wir dann doch in Ages angekommen. Es waren zwar nur 24km aber immerhin.

Zwischenzeitlich sind wir noch in eine katholische Prozession geraten, ganz unverhofft... aber interressant.

In dem kleinen Ort angekommen wurde erstmal geduscht und dann geschlafen, am Abend dann ein wenig spazieren gegangen und die kleine Kirche und den Rest des wirklich liebenswerten kleinen Dörfchens angeschaut.
Es gab auch wieder Eselchen, konnte mich natürlich nicht zurückhalten. ☺

Ich muss sagen ich genieße die Zeit mit meinen Italienern, echt liebenswerte und witzige Menschen. Irgendwie schade, dass sich morgen die Wege trennen.Läs mer
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Resenär Oh lecker..Cubanito Eis🍦😍gibts bei uns leider nicht🙈
2018-06-04Svara
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Resenär Pre-Camino training
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- 19 sep. 2017 15:39
- ☀️ 17 °C
- Höjd över havet: 967 m
- Spanien Castilla y León Arlanzón Agés 42.36971, -3.4783642°22’11” N 3°28’42” W
Dag 21
Walk for the Ages
19 september 2017, Spanien ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
Our walk today started in the mists and continued through oak forests over a pass to a remote monastery. Plenty of time to contemplate and commune with nature. Our destination, Ages, is a quaint little town, alive ONLY because of the pilgrimage.Läs mer
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Resenär loved the labyrinth. hugs, Pat
2017-09-19Svara
Resenär Lots of representations of these. Energy/life spiraling inwards and outwards simultaneously.
2017-10-17Svara
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Kathy Thielen Camino De Santiago
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- 18 sep. 2016 22:36
- 🌙 8 °C
- Höjd över havet: 3 179 ft
- Spanien Castilla y León Arlanzón Agés 42.36939, -3.479242°22’10” N 3°28’45” W
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Belorado to Ages
18 september 2016, Spanien ⋅ 🌙 8 °C
Sun, Sept 18: A little over 29 km today, beginning in a crisp morning air. Another amazing walk. Legs and feet feeling very tired tonight. Tomorrow headed for Burgos & planning a 2-night stay, possibly splurging for a hotel room.

Pic#1 full moon(?) in the morning as we are on our way
Pic#3 me with Jenny (D.C. area) & Young (S. Korea)
Pic#4 my fabulous Camino family and me having an after dinner drink before 10pm albergue curfewLäs mer
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Vanetta Abdellatif Beautiful.
2016-09-23Svara
Vanetta Abdellatif Love how the wood is all warped on this little cafe?
2016-09-23Svara
I hope you ordered a bocadillo there. Best sandwich on the trail. Super cool on the inside too.
2016-09-25Svara
Kathy Thielen Definitely delicious bocadillas, though it's become hard to pinpoint where the very best ones have been at this point!
2016-09-28Svara
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Resenär Camino de Santiago
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- 15 sep. 2018 16:46
- ☀️ 26 °C
- Höjd över havet: 978 m
- Spanien Castilla y León Arlanzón Agés 42.36934, -3.4790242°22’10” N 3°28’44” W
Dag 13
Day 11. Ages
15 september 2018, Spanien ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Slightly further than the book suggests today, to ensure we get a bed. Shame our room mates are the snoring Americans and the creepy man following me.... oh well it's an adventure, dinner is cheap and it's pallea, my favourite. Tomorrow Burgos!!!!!Läs mer
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Resenär Stay away from creepy old men. Still loving the photos x
2018-09-15Svara
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