Bercianos del Real Camino, Spain Travel Journals & Blogs

Traveler Camino 2023
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- Oct 13, 2023, 8:16am
- ☁️ 55 °F
- Altitude: 2,736 ft
- Spain Castille and León Bercianos del Real Camino 42.389057, -5.13704142°23’21” N 5°8’13” W
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Day 23 Bercianos to Reliegos
October 13, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 55 °F
Today we started with another beautiful sunrise. The chill wore off pretty quickly. This was another sparse stretch of the walk. The first stop was 5 miles out at El Burgo Ranero. All along the Camino there are various murals, sculptures, and other interesting objects often in random places. Kim managed to find a cat to feed right away this morning. There were several small "parks" along the path if you wanted to stop for a rest, stretch or have a snack. It started to sprinkle our last couple miles into Reliegos, a small village with several nice albergues.Read more
Traveler Beautiful cross🙏
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Traveler Another precious kitty😊
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Traveler Camino de Santiago
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- Apr 13, 2024, 1:48pm
- ⛅ 23 °C
- Altitude: 840 m
- Spain Castille and León Bercianos del Real Camino 42.388486, -5.14632242°23’19” N 5°8’47” W
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Day 22
Moratinos to El Burgo Ranero
April 13 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
Dinner was actually really good, so those Italians live to see another day. There were only seven of us staying there (off stage), which made for an interesting table. Me, a nuts Italian guy on a bicycle, an Austrian guy. A completely nice and normal Austrian couple and an unusual American couple, in that they'd been travelling constantly since they both lost their businesses in 2020 (she works online to support them though I'm not entirely sure how given that work is "running a non-profit"). The solo Austrian guy tried to rollerskate from Munich to Hamburg once because his colleague told him he couldn't. He got 100km then bought a bike. Like I said. Odd crew.

I'm a sensory princess at the best of times and today for some reason really set me off. There was something *touching me* constantly - a cobweb, a hair, my pack straps, ugh! Each day, after a while in the heat with my hands swinging my sides, my fingers swell up and I have to take my tightest ring off. Today, I could actually feel the breeze in the tiny tiny hairs on my knuckles and I didn't like it. The cobwebs in particular I do not understand. I'm walking a well worn path. I'm not the first today, I won't be the last. HOW is there a spiderweb here, what determined little Charlotte is at work, she can CHILL OUT until later because her work is just going to keep getting wrecked.

Every day for the past four (?) days, I've been passed by two old guys biking in the opposite direction. This I also do not understand. Are they orbiting me? Does my version of the Truman Show not have enough extras? If they are doing this in reverse we should have crossed once. Tomorrow I shall fling myself in their path and demand an explanation.

Another 30km day and I'm in El Burgo Ranero, listening to a Dutch girl that just got to the albergue say she came here because her private room across the road had flies - can you imagine? I certainly can, it's nearly 30 degrees, we're in farm land, and the window was probably open. But sure babe, you do you.Read more
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Traveler Camino de Santiago
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- Apr 22, 2024
- ☀️ 59 °F
- Altitude: 2,736 ft
- Spain Castille and León Bercianos del Real Camino 42.389205, -5.13705442°23’21” N 5°8’13” W
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Day 21
Terradillos de los Templarios to Bercian
April 22 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 59 °F
280 miles done. 220 to go. 56%…over half way

16 miles walk today, and met several people along the way for whom the pain of blisters, or a hurt ankle, or other malady is a struggle. Prayers for them as they slowly push through their pain on the Camino.

Around lunchtime, I found a little place that advertised pizzas. I’d been craving one. They had many options, but I chose the Tex Mex one and it was fantastic to have some spicy food… Spanish food (at least that I’ve encountered) isn’t spicy at all and is fairly bland, similar to English food. The Tex Mex pizza hit the spot.

Dinner was a typical pilgrims meal… and bland. lol.

Downloaded a couple episodes of Franklin on AppleTV and watched them before bed. Amazing forefather of the US who was gifted in so many various ways.

Till tomorrow—Read more
Traveler Yeah, but I bet those comfortable new shoes are a close second.
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Traveler Walking the Camino
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- Jul 17, 2022, 4:36pm
- ☀️ 100 °F
- Altitude: 855 m
- Spain Castille and León Bercianos del Real Camino 42.386834, -5.14599942°23’13” N 5°8’46” W
Day 17
Berciamos
July 17, 2022 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 100 °F
Again, we beat the heat, arriving in Bercianos before 12. It was a comfortable walk, but the last 2k seem to take forever. We continue to see many little houses dug into mountain sides. The sign explains how they are used. I guess I can stop looking for Hobbits, along the way. 😁 My picture is at the end of our walk, where I took a nap on the cement, until the albergue opened an hour and a half later. We are staying at a Parochial albergue, run by volunteers, that do not charge, but accept donations. They do not have wifi, so we are sitting in a bar, using their wifi, l enjoying a beer, and watching the Tour de France on TV and locals playing lively games of dominos. Lots of slamming on the tables, and observers yelling. I guess I've been playing dominos the wrong way all these years!😂I've been able to keep in touch with Cyndee- she has been doing some site seeing, plans to continue to bus ahead to Sarria, then walk 10k a day until she reaches Santiago. So glad she is doing the Camino her way.❤️Read more
Traveler Great pictures & how interesting about the Bodegas. Thanks for the clear pic so we could read about it. Your albuergia looks beautiful & you look beautifully hot & exhausted! Give yourselves a treat & look for one with A/C tonight! good to hear Cyndee's doing well
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Traveler So glad you inherited your dad’s ability to sleep anywhere!! Looks like V has a residence there🤣 Stay positive, sleep well! ❤️U
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Traveler So glad Cyndee is still trying her best to finish. You have to be so tired but hope you get rest tonight. So proud of you. Love You. Everything is interesting
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Traveler Jakobsweg - Camino Frances
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- Feb 19, 2023, 9:35pm
- Altitude: 856 m
- Spain Castille and León Bercianos del Real Camino 42.388448, -5.14521342°23’18” N 5°8’43” W
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Etappe 18
February 19, 2023 in Spain
Die heutige Etappe, von Moratinos nach Berciano del Real Camino war die meiner Meinung nach bisher unspektakulärste...viele Kilometer der Schnellstrasse lang und durch das ziemlich hässliche Kleinstädtchen Sahagun. Heute war meine Laune nicht auf dem Höhepunkt, ich brauchte unterwegs etwas Ablenkung und so habe ich mir 5 Stunden lang Harry Potter angehört😁
Der Höhepunkt heute war, dass mitten in der Pampa ein Restaurant geöffnet war, dort bestelle ich mir zwei Caffé con Leche und ein Bocadillo con Queso😍Highlight des Tages!Read more
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Camino de Santiago (Frances)
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- Sep 29, 2023, 4:25pm
- ☀️ 82 °F
- Altitude: 2,776 ft
- Spain Castille and León Bercianos del Real Camino 42.388119, -5.14244942°23’17” N 5°8’33” W
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Day 24 - Bercianos del Real Camino
September 29, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 82 °F
I know we have walked the first 1.5 miles before, hmm when was it? Oh, I remember, it was yesterday ;)

We got an early start and it was like it didn't even happen. We walked 14 miles today and have a 13 mile tomorrow and then two easy days before a day off in Leon. The easy days will be under 10 miles each.Read more
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Traveler Pilgern nach Santiago de Comp.
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- Oct 14, 2023, 7:30am
- ☁️ 11 °C
- Altitude: 844 m
- Spain Castille and León Bercianos del Real Camino 42.408001, -5.11451642°24’29” N 5°6’52” W
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Vormittags
October 14, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C
Ich laufe heute nochmals alleine… Charlotte und ich fanden beide, das wäre sicher eine spannende Erfahrung für uns in dieser Gegend alleine hu laufen…
Hat auch sonst sehr wenige andere Pilgerer hier auf der alternativ Route.Read more
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- Mar 10, 2024, 12:00pm
- 🌬 7 °C
- Altitude: 848 m
- Spain Castille and León Bercianos del Real Camino 42.389963, -5.14406242°23’24” N 5°8’39” W
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Bercianos del Real Camino
March 10 in Spain ⋅ 🌬 7 °C
Vor dem Ort führt der Camino Frances an einer ehemaligen Eremitage vorbei. Die Casa de la Cultura verfügt über einen Turm, der aber leider nicht bestiegen werden kann; die Sicht dürfte von dort sehr weit gehen.Read more
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Traveler Camino de Santiago Frances
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- Jun 1, 2023
- ⛅ 70 °F
- Altitude: 2,795 ft
- Spain Castille and León Bercianos del Real Camino 42.388153, -5.14338742°23’17” N 5°8’36” W
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Day 21: To Bercianos del Real Camino
June 1, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 70 °F
This morning I left before 7am and the sun was just up. It was a beautiful time to walk. After around 4K I arrived at Moratinos for a much-needed coffee break. After enjoying my coffee and pastry, I continued to a (fairly) major town on today’s hike, Sahagùn. Shortly before I entered the town, I passed over a medieval bridge and then through a monument that signifies the theoretical 1/2 point from St Jean Pied de Port France to Santiago de Compostela Spain. (You walk between two statues that mark the official 1/2 point.) That is of course if you walked directly from SJPDP to Santiago or about 400K of the 800K total.) Of course, I’ve been walking around the towns, having lunch, looking for bathrooms etc, so as of lunchtime today I have walked 321 miles or 517 kilometers since leaving SJPDP.
Entering Sahagún you pass another great pilgrim mural and then a big gate “The Arch of San Benito” that was originally the entrance to a church but is now an entrance to the city.
I went ahead and had lunch while in Sahagùn. I joined a nice French guy that I had seen several times on the Camino (Johan) for lunch. He started his Camino in a Le Puy France. It’s a gateway to the Camino that is about 750 kilometers before St Jean. So really where I started (Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port) was actually his 1/2-way point. I thought my 800k trek was a lot. Just goes to show, it’s all relative…Wow!
After leaving Sahagún I continued my hike for a couple more hours to my stop for the evening; Bercianos del Real Camino. I’ve been walking with some of my Camino family from the US (Terry, his granddaughter Emma, and her friend Jack) off and on the past few days. It happens we are staying in the same Albergue this evening. We were all on our phones this evening looking for beds for tomorrow and I found a very reasonable four-bedroom apartment for rent. So tomorrow we are all splitting it along with another pilgrim (Sue) we just met. It should be fun!Read more
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- Jun 25, 2023, 8:18am
- ☀️ 66 °F
- Altitude: 2,762 ft
- Spain Castille and León Bercianos del Real Camino 42.388333, -5.14166742°23’18” N 5°8’30” W
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Feeling Much Better
June 25, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 66 °F
After yesterday's much needed rest (3 hr naps are the best!) I'm happy to have an appetite again and hoping that food and fluids help restore my energy levels.

Today's walk will be a brief 17km or a looong almost 30km. Seeing as how the forecast is nearly 40° this afternoon (mid-high 90°s) I suspect that the albergue with a swimming pool at the short-walk distance is likely to get the nod. But.... At 10AM and feeling strong, we shall see!Read more
Traveler Don’t push yourself too soon
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