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    • Rozette's Camino 2023Camino de Santiago
      Day 5

      Hospital de Orbigo

      May 25, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C

      I planned to stay over in Hospital de Orbigo, but got to the town at 11:20 and decided to carry on to the next town. Seeing that I did not book any accommodation it is easy to change my plans. I walked over the famous bridge and the first one on my CaminoRead more

    • TravelerA Camino to Remember
      Day 29

      Astorga! And Less than 300 km left!

      October 16, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 54 °F

      Today we walked to Astorga. It is a lovely town with a cathedral and a building designed by Gaudi. And, maybe most importantly, a shoe store! I sad as it was to say goodbye to my previous shoes, the soles were completely torn up. They had to be replaced.

      We had a wonderful time at our previous location. Our hosts were completely lovely. Dolores, the woman who ran the lodging facility, was so lovely. She gave us and our new friend from Chile big hugs when we left this morning. We made friends with a wonderful woman from Chile. She walks faster than us, though, so I’m not sure if I’m going to see her anymore!

      Walk today was only 15 km. It was pleasant and through countryside. We arrived in Astorga fairly early. We went to a shoe store. They had the same brand of shoes I have been wearing but not the same model. They probably gave me a blister between my big toe and second toe! So I have been doctoring the blister and I relaced the shoes. Hopefully that will solve the problem and my shoe issues will no longer be a problem.

      We went to that which was lovely. We had an audio tour. It rained on us even though it wasn’t supposed to rain once we were here in town. Of course, we were not carrying our ponchos when we were out being tourists. All of the restaurants in town are closed because today is Monday. Not Sunday, but Monday. Apparently that’s a thing too! So we and all the other pilgrims in town are at a pizza place tonight. But Pizza is a good all purpose food!

      We were looking at a map for tomorrow, and we have a steady, uphill climb going to our next location, Rabanal. We were surprised to see that the day after tomorrow is the day we go to Cruz de Ferro where are we will be leaving our rocks on the big mound where everybody else leaves that rocks! It’s actually pretty exciting to have made it more than 2/3 of the way now!

      We were very excited when we saw a mileage marker that was 369 km. Unfortunately, about 5 km later we found a mileage marker that said we had 375 km to go! I think it just goes to show you that you can’t really trust those mileage markers! According to our guide book, we have 256 km to go!      Read more

    • TravelerCamino Frances, part 2
      Day 8

      La flecha

      May 12 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C

      Sommigen vragen of het lastig is om je route te vinden naar Santiago de Compostela. Het antwoord is "Nee". Er zijn duizenden gele pijlen (flechas) uitgezet over de verschillende camino routes. Vaak eenvoudig van aard, geschilderd op een muur, een paal of op de weg. Soms op een officieel bord. Er zijn zelfs pijlen gemaakt van stenen.
      Je hebt ze in alle soorten en maten en zelfs een blinde zou zo bijna zijn weg kunnen vinden naar Santiago. Buen Camino!      Read more

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    • TravelerJakobsweg - Camino Frances
      1
      Day 23

      21. Tag: Villavante - Astorga

      August 24, 2019 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C

      Wie am Vorabend beschlossen gehe ich heute mit Martin aus Hamburg gemeinsam. Wir brechen erst gegen 7:00 Uhr auf, da wir heute entspannte 23 km vor uns haben. Nach ca 1 km stell ich dann fest, das ich meine Wanderstöcke in der Unterkunft vergessen habe. 🙄 Musste ja irgendwann passieren. Also wieder zurück. Werden heute dann wohl doch mehr km als geplant. 😂

      Die Landschaft ist toll, wir haben auch endlich wieder ein paar Höhenmeter, was mich tatsächlich nach den vielen flachen Etappen freut. Wirklich lustig, weil ich Berge eigentlich nicht leiden kann. Aber so ist das hier eben. Ich dachte vorher auch das ich nicht der Typ Mensch bin der alleine reist, auf Menschen zugeht oder das mein Englisch nicht besonders gut ist. Der Weg verändert einen eben....

      Auch das Wetter ist wieder super gut aber gegen Ende wieder superheiß und wir sind froh als wir in Astorga ankommen.      Read more

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    • TravelerCamino Frances
      Day 2–3

      Day 2 Hospital de Orbigo

      October 30, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C

      Day two started without any troubles. I met two people from Netherlands so I practised my Dutch. The lady had a problem with her ankle and she could barely walk. They have been on Camino for seven weeks, me 2 days and I already feel quite beaten. The route was nice and quiet. The last stretch of La Meseta. Most of the time the route followed back country road with almost no traffic. One could see from horizon to horizon, nothing around. It reminded me of a story back in my hitchhiking days. One driver mentioned that he experienced something like that in Kazachstan. I strangely became happy when a car appeared on a horizon. I met a German peregrino. He called taxi since his ankle was also swollen and he could not walk anymore. He offered me a ride, I refused. First test? The bridge in Hospital De Orbigo is impressive, the longest on Camino, from 10th century. My albergue is just next to it. Super convenientRead more

    • TravelerCamino de Santiago
      Day 26

      Ur jousting me

      April 17 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 8 °C

      Compared to the Meseta, towns are beautifully spaced now, and I came, in time, to Hospital de Orbigo and its wonderful bridge.

      I was completely in my head until I got here, and it pulled me into the moment where I stayed the rest of the day.

      I was looking at the wooden stuff on the grassed side, making another Knights Tale joke to myself when I realised, later confirmed by a sign, no that is an *actual* jousting set up. Brilliant.      Read more

    • Traveler2023 Passport Chronicles
      Day 34

      Camino Day 24: León to Hospital deÓrbigo

      September 4, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C

      Total Distance: 41.5km
      Step Count: 58k
      Blisters to date: 2
      Tortillas to date: 21
      Injuries: shin splints

      Blippin’ longest day ever walking! Not just on the Camino but in my lifetime! - to date anyways.

      What was meant to be a 34km day (a bit of a stretch for my leg and the longest day I’d have so far) ended up being 41km! All the guide books and trail info about this stage were wrong as confirmed by the locals later.

      The walk itself was flat, uneventful, serene, with minimal stops, a very early start and some rain during the morning. I ended up walking the whole day with a Mexican woman who’d asked me in León if she could stick with me just to make her way out of town. It would be dark and she didn’t want to get lost but we found our way out easily thanks to another pilgrim who was heading out at the same time.

      Grumpiness kicked in after 30 odd KMs when I realised I still had another 8 to reach my destination but all the aches and pains disappeared in an instant when we arrived! Hospital de Órbigo was by far one of the most beautiful arrivals to a village with its long Roman bridge and the beautiful love story surrounding it (el Passo Honroso)! ❤️

      We were also going to stay at an Albergue run by Venezuelans which to my surprise was all dedicated to paintings by pilgrims. It was so colourful and reminded me of posadas by the beach back home! 💛💙❤️

      Lukas and I spent like an hour painting and then went to enjoy a well deserved dinner with Tim and then lots of sleep! The next day would be a short one 😊      Read more

    • TravelerCamino 2023
      Day 25

      Hospital to astorga

      June 23, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 57 °F

      Had a easy day today. We slept in a bit and started walking around 730. We got into astorga at 12. We had lunch at one of the places on the square. I had a pretty decent crispy burrito. Then we walked down to find churros. On the way there we stopped at a vermouth bar. It was pretty tasty. I had one that had a mango finsh. Then we walked around town trying to find them the one place we tried to go to was closed. We found another one. The chocolate was good but the churros were old. One we were done with that we walked over to the gudi building and did a walk through of that. It was neat to be able to go through it a second time. Then we went to the church it was a neat walk through. I whis I brought my headphones with me. I took them out right before we left. Other places are getting away from the audio and just using a qr code and you can just use your phone. After that I got some ice cream and wanted to take a minute and have one more drink. And to watch the bells.Read more

    • TravelerClaire’s Camino
      Day 25

      Stage 22 - along the way

      April 26 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C

      Today the Camino was back to its verdant, more interesting style after days of straight and flat.

      So many highlights, including the most beautiful supermodel chickens in a cafe we stopped at, the stunning Hospital de Órbigo (with its bridge that legend has it saw 300 knightly fights when one guy got turned down by a girl and decided he had to defend his honour by challenging everyone else to a fight in the 1400s!), and the most gloriously hippy food and rest stop in the middle of nowhere!Read more

    • TravelerCamino 2023
      Day 5

      Hospital de Orbigo from Villar Mazarife

      October 22, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C

      Another short day, getting my body into walking shape. Walked 14 kilometers to Hospital de Orbigo, stopping to stretch out and rest complaining hip joints at every opportunity. I’m walking a little better today.

      Started in the dark around 8:00 AM. The days are short. Lunch in Villavante was the old standby tortilla de patatas, which is like a potato omelette and doesn’t have anything to do with tortillas as they are known in the Americas.

      Staying at a real nice albergue in Hospital de Orbigo. The owners encourage anyone who wants, to paint. The place is full of interesting art. I’m sparing them my artistic talents. This good sized town has a long, famous bridge. In olden days, a knight made an oath to joust and beat 300 others to prove his love for a woman he wanted to impress. He and his buds didn’t make it past 170 however. I don’t know if he ended up with his love interest or not. True story.      Read more

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