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    • TravelerMy Camino
      Day 9

      Day 8 walking!

      May 16 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 8 °C

      The Albergue is very quirky and run by Pedro with a 13 year old rescue dog and a cat that snuggles up to the dog, very cute!
      Pedro made us all individual omelette for breakfast, and guessing he’s either a retired priest or lay preacher, as he put his hand on our heads individually and blessed us on our way. Also at a previous Albergue, the host Eleena rang a bell as we left and rang it and waved until we were out of sight. Some very kind hosts.
      Today’s first part of the walk was mostly down hill with undulating country side and cool breeze. We stopped for break in Santo Domingo which had beautiful cathedral. Here sadly my friend Sarah had to leave us and get a bus back as on early flight out tomorrow, and now we are two again.
      The rest of the day we walked through various small hamlets all with lovely churches, and rolling countryside but often alongside the N-120 main road, so apart from some encouraging beeps from truckers (?!) the traffic and road made the walk noisy and little dull. The final stretch is always the hardest but we made it to the Albergue after about 26 Km …. Shorter distance planned for tomorrow!      Read more

    • TravelerCamino Frances
      2
      Day 11

      Logrono til Ventosa

      April 21, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C

      En rolig tur på ca. 18 km. Det tok en times tid å komme ut av byen og inn i en flott park. I parken var det en eldre herremann som solgte diverse pilegrims remedier, drikke, frukt og bananer. Jeg fikk et pilegrims-stempel i pilegrims-passet mitt og betalte 1 euro for en banan. Jeg passerte en større sjø, med et rikt fugleliv og folk som forsøkte fiskelykken. Høydepunktet i parken var noen tamme ekorn, som gjorde seg til i bytte mot mat. Det tok et par timer til jeg var ute av parken og ute i det åpne landskapet. Det er flott med et åpent landskap, men det er lite skygge og varmt ble det - nærmere 30 grader i solen.

      Det ble en lengre pause i Navarerete på et hyggelig torg foran kirken. Det er helt utrolig hvor utsmykket kirkene er, selv på mindre steder. Mye synd kanskje - hva vet jeg!

      Turen gikk greit til jeg hadde et par km igjen til Ventosa. Da begynte det venstre kneet å skape seg. Jeg kom meg fram til hospitset, fant min seng og kunne hvile både meg og kneet. Det er mange folk på veien - ikke at det bryr meg - der jeg går i min egen boble. Utfordringen ligger i å finne et sted å sove, ikke for nærme og ikke for langt unna.
      Jeg vasket både meg og tøyet og satte meg ned for å reservere en seng/rom fremover. Letter sagt enn gjort. Jeg ble sittende med dette i flere timer og har klart å få til et puslespill fram til torsdag. Noen av strekningene er i lengste laget, og for de må jeg nok ty til en kort busstur, for å korte ned til noe som er greit for meg - rundt 22 km.
      Vi var flere som samlet seg til middag; tyskere, amerikanere, hollendere, med flere - og jeg da. En hyggelig middag, med god Rioja vin. Så ble det kveld og dag 12 var i vente.      Read more

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    • TravelerEl Camino de Santiago – 2024
      Day 16

      Santo Domingo

      October 2 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 68 °F

      Im going to push past the stop to the next town of Grañon. It's another 6k in the rain so hopefully I can make it there before it really begins to pour.

      Randomly met a dude from San Diego. I forget his name but he was cool to talk to between Cireque and santo.Read more

    • TravelerCamino de Santiago
      2
      Day 14

      Ventosa to Ciruena 25km 7hrs

      September 18, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C

      Todd walked the entire way today. He started with Claire and Cecile. I took a taxi 10km to Najera to get my blisters looked at in a medical clinic. Of course, it was a holiday in that village and the clinic was closed. Seems like there is always a holiday in Spain. My feet were feeling better after a good nights sleep so I decided to attempt to walk the remaining 15km with Todd and the others. We met up in Najera and we kept on walking. Met a lovely mother and daughter from Vancouver and walked with them for some of the way.
      On our way to our albergue in Ciruena we walked through a golf course community which seemed quite deserted. Then we came across a little path to our very cute albergue, Virgin de Guadeloupe. Our host was a tad eccentric but good natured and fun and a great cook.      Read more

    • Traveler2023 Passport Chronicles
      211
      Day 20

      Camino Day 10: Nájera to Santo Domingo

      August 21, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 33 °C

      Total Distance: 23.7km
      Step Count: 33.4k
      Blisters to date: 2
      Tortillas to date: 11

      Today was one of the most beautiful days on the Camino, at least for me. I’d heard that many people skip the section between Burgos and Leon because the trail is mostly flat and one mostly traverses the plains but if I’d skipped this, I would’ve missed out on endless fields of sunflowers!

      🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻

      I started walking before sunrise and got lost for 0.5km. Well, me and every other person that started walking in the dark. I was soon back on the road and enjoying brekkie an hour later. Jorge had caught up by then and we walked together for the rest of the day.

      We played with all the cats and dogs along the way and just as we came about the most beautiful fields, we started hearing a guy whistling to a random tune behind us. It’d come to be the most creepy encounter on the journey (hopefully to date).

      The guy came up to Jorge speaking in some foreign language messing with his backpack buckles and after one minute started doing the same with mine. We were about to lose our patience when the guy took a step back and we realised he was going to move on. We kept dabs on the guy the rest of the way to make sure we wouldn’t stay in the same place. I was so glad I wasn’t alone in this moment. We only ever saw him once more on the trail after and never again.

      In Santo Domingo de la Calzada, we spent the rest of the afternoon bar hopping and chatting with other Spanish pilgrims. It was a cute little town but the heat was unbearable so undercover was the only acceptable place to be.

      There’d been so many requests for wedding invites from everyone that had seen Jorge and I together up until that point that we ended up having a fake camino proposal/marriage at one of the bars to share with all. And having already met his dad, it seemed like the perfect next step that would ensure endless moments of laughter with everyone for days to come. 👩🏻‍❤️‍👨🏻 💍🤣      Read more

    • TravelerCamino de Santiago 2023
      Day 12

      Day 11 - Cirueña -> Viloria de Rioja

      May 12, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C

      The idea for the day was to walk 20 km to Viloria de Rioja, in order to stay at the Refugio Acacio & Orietta. Eva was excited about the idea of staying at the albergue of Paulo Coelho's friends. Mark and Sonja already had reservations at the other albergue in the Viloria de Rioja. There are two albergues in the village, which is a lot for a village with only 28 inhabitants.
      Eva and I started our walk to the first step, Santo Domingo de la Calzada. I was excited to visit the Cathedral of Santo Domingo. Besides the body of the Santo Domingo, the patron saint of the village, there is a rooster in a gothic chicken coop inside the church. There is a legend that a roasted rooster was placed on the mayor's table, it stood up and crowed to prove the innocence of a pilgrim who had been unjustly accused. Unfortunately, the church was closed due to the holiday in honor of the saint.
      After Santo Domingo the next village is Grañón. Is a kind of village that you can cross very quickly, but it's worth to stop and go intro the church. By the way, I did this all the time, stopped and went intro every church I could. It happened a very funny situation in this church. After visiting the inside of the church, I noticed that Eva was sitting in silence. I thought that she was praying or just thinking. I left in silence, to wait for her outside. After about 15 minutes she left the church, came to me and said that she had fallen asleep. We both started laughing.
      As we leave Grañón we begin to say goodbye to La Rioja and walk through the region of Castilla y León.
      The next village is Redicilla del Camino. Another place that I have been waiting to visit, because of the 12th century baptismal font from the , in Romanesque style. But again my expectations were disappointed, because the church was closed. The only thing to do was to continue to Castildelgado and finally to Viloria de Rioja.      Read more

    • TravelerPilgern nach Santiago de Comp.
      Day 61

      Spanische Begleitung

      October 6, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C

      Heute bin ich mit Roven gelaufen… Er ist aus Nordspanien… ich verstehe ihn nicht immer, doch er hilft mir etwas mit dem Spanisch und ich bin dafür so git ich kann seine Englisch Lehrerin… lange ist es ganz lustig… wir laufen auch gemeinsam in Santa Domingos ein… da esse ich mein leckeres Zmittag, was ich noch vom letzten Abend, dem Geminschaftsessem in der super Herberge mitnehmen konnte… danach wollen wir noch weiter laufen nach Grañon… plötzlich verhält sich Ruven ganz komisch… er antwortet irgendwie auch auf meine Fragen nicht mehr wirklich und scheint mich auch nicht mehr ganz zu erkennen… ich bin etwas ratlos… glücklicherweise sind gerade noch einige andere Pilgerer in der Nähe… sie meine er sei vermutlich dehydriert und er müsse trinken und der eine gibt ihm auch eine Zuckerkapsel… er kommt wieder langsam zu sinnen… hmm… er fragt mich dann auch, was denn passiert sei… nun… wir laufen weiter, doch ich merke ich bin etwas verunsichert und bin froh, wenn ich ihn einfach heil nach Grañon begleite… mir ist wieder klar geworden, wie die Sprachbarriere gerade für solche Situationen schwierig ist… ich konnte mich nicht gut genug mit ihm
      Über den Vorfall austauschen… und bin mir bis jetzt nicht sicher, wie es ihm wirklich ging und wie er das erlebt hat… ich gehe automatisch auch etwas auf Distanz…
      Später am Abend sehe ich dann auch, dass er grosse Narben am Kopf hat… ob es also wirklich Dehydration war oder ob er evt. Sonst ab und zu Probleme auf Grund einer Kopfoperation hat, bleibt ein Rätsel…      Read more

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    • TravelerCamino de Santiago
      Day 19

      Sunrise Peace, and a Dog

      June 15, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 54 °F

      Somewhere in this, is a lesson.

      I woke to a colorful sky and jumped out of bed to get some sunrise stretchies in.

      I was glad for the puffy jacket, sunrise temps were very cool-feeling (maybe mid-50s?) with an Eastern breeze.

      As I walked up a small rise, in front of a ruined building, to catch a better vantage I thought... "Perfect! Quiet, cool." And I dropped my phone and water to begin sun salutations.

      That's when the enormous-sounding dog in the 'ruin' woke and told me in no uncertain terms that (s)he was not ok with me standing there.

      So I moved. Not far, sunrise waits for no man after all. But far enough to restore some tranquility.

      It's often very easy to make a small change to find tranquility.      Read more

    • TravelerClaire’s Camino
      Day 10

      Stage 9 - along the way

      April 11 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C

      It was a shorter walk today - just over 20km - but the weather was warming up considerably so it made it feel a bit harder. We all got a bit sunburned (the Camino tan is always more on the left hand side as we’re walking west) and hilariously my hand has a very clear walking pole strap mark! I seem to have escaped much else so far, thanks perhaps to my scarf and hat.

      Walked through a weird town where there was nobody about apart from the few people at the golf club as we entered, where we had lunch. It felt like an eerie zombie town and we joked a lot about it on the way through.      Read more

    • TravelerAlSal Camino Santiago
      Day 21

      Ventosa to Cirueña

      May 1, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C

      Long hot day with a trudge up to Ciruña past a golf course and ugly new golf apartments development. Old town of Cirueña a bit tired and dusty - not the most beautiful town we've stayed in - but the auberge is a well set up family home. Comfy though a come down to earth after the flash hotel last night.
      Meet Dirk from Germany. Great      Read more

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