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    • TravelerA long walk with my son.
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      Day 2

      Day 1. Success

      April 6 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C

      Day 1 was a success. Did good with the metro and train. Got into Leon and ate lunch. We were both exhausted. So got an alburgue for the night. Tomorrow, we take a bus for 30 min to Hospital del Obrigo where we will start our walk.
      Shared a meal with 2 ladies. The place we are staying is so nice.      Read more

    • TravelerCamino frances.
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      Day 25

      Von manzillas de las mulas nach Leon.

      May 27, 2022 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C

      Hola chicas y chicos, que tall? Nun, heute stand die oben erwähnte Etappe an, es waren ca 18,7 km. Der Weg nach León war nicht besonders anspruchsvoll und konnte relativ leicht bewältigt werden. Am Stadtrand der fantastischen Stadt Leon angekommen, mussten noch 2,8km bis zum el centro bewältigt werden. Im el centro angekommen, bot sich eine quicklebendige Alltstadt. Beeindruckend und das beste, was ich bisher gesehen hatte, war die Kathedrale von Leon (siehe Fotos). Das muss man neben den anderen Shenswürdigkeiten gesehen haben. Morgen startet die nächste Etappe und bald ist Leon/ Kastilien mit der mesetaebene Geschichte und es geht rüber nach Galicia. Erkenntnis des Tages: Es gibt immer noch mehr zu entdecken als mal glaubt.Read more

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    • TravelerCamino de Santiago
      Day 24

      Swine time

      Yesterday in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C

      Well, I've cracked the shits. Which, when you're travelling is sort of a double whammy as not only are you bummed, you feel like an ungrateful swine.

      It all came on very suddenly, and I suspect it's like when you watch drops of rain on a window - occasionally, two or three will band together, and, picking up momentum, race down the pane, gobbling up others as they go.

      My raindrops are probably:

      - weariness from back pain (it grinds you down, and it started 254km ago)
      - self consciousness from tan lines (I feel like a stupid pink fleshy tourist)
      - homesickness (people, vegetables, being understood).

      Soon, this mega-drop will splatter on the windowsill and dissipate. To help that along, I'd quite like to have a cry. Unfortunately, my tears follow a tropical schedule - over the year we have extended dry periods, followed by a build up, and then the wet season. We are potentially in the build up? It's too early to say.

      Instead I have come back to the very nice hostel, rented a proper towel, had a long shower with a newly purchased exfoliating glove and scrubbed myself raw, made tea and toast, and told myself I can put off updating here and dinner plans and everything for a bit and just sit. I don't even have to go out tonight if I don't feel like it.

      I'm very alright, and tomorrow I'll go back to being absolutely in love with it all again.      Read more

    • TravelerCamino Francés 2022
      Day 20

      Dinner in León

      August 11, 2022 in Spain ⋅ 🌙 24 °C

      Jan, Maren and I were waiting for our dinner when Murdock, who had met Maren before, walked by and joined us.
      He has the most extraordinary life I have heard of so far on the Camino: he's Scottish, and has been living in Oman for 5 years. Who wants to guess what his job is? I bet no one will come even close! 🤣Read more

    • TravelerCamino de Santiago
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      Day 27

      Rest day in León

      October 9, 2022 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 10 °C

      Resting up and getting ready to hit the trail again tomorrow. Visited the Gaudi Museum in the Casa Botines, and the Museo de León, which was a 3D illustration of a lot of the McCullough text for third year of EfM- A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years. A light lunch of crepes, nice long nap, contemplating dinner options.Read more

    • TravelerVon Eyendorf nach Afrika
      Day 73

      Leon...die Löwin :-)

      April 14, 2023 in Spain ⋅ 🌬 16 °C

      Natürlich muss ich hier halten und mir die Löwenstadt anschauen. Ein bisschen wie die kleine Schwester von Salmanaca.
      Eine Kathedrale, ein italienischer Platz, schöne Athmospäre und weniger Touristen.
      Heute bin ich in einem wunderbaren Hostel in der Altstadt. Der Herbergsvater hat beim einchecken an meinen Bewegungen gesehen, dass ich Rückenschmerzen habe.
      Er hat mir gleich einen Termin beim Masseur im Haus gemacht. Dort war ich gerade, er war auch ein Osteopath. Mein unterer Rücken ist jetzt getapt. Ohne das ich fragte, sagte er morgen kein Auto fahren, only relax! Ich wollte morgen eigentlich zur Küste weiter fahren. Naja, bleibe ich noch ein Tag hier, da morgen nur ein letztes Bett frei ist, ziehe ich in das gemischte sechser Zimmer. Lustig! Der Masseur hat eben gesagt, obwohl ich fast nichts gesagt habe, dass ich spanisches Temperament habe :-).
      Der Herbergsvater sagte, dass ich eine Hippieseele und ein ganz junges Herz habe :-). Schöööön!
      Und ich hatte wirklich schöne Gespräche mit den Pilgern :-).      Read more

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    • TravelerDiane’s Camino Frances
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      Day 28

      Leon

      May 18, 2022 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C

      A quiet day in Leon resting my foot.

      But it was great to catch up with Sandra for an Italian meal opposite the Cathedral this evening.

      And also bumped into lots of others that we started with weeks ago - it’s a small world on the Camino.

      Hotel via Leon
      5kms      Read more

    • TravelerOne More Camino in Spain 2023
      Day 44

      Very peaceful day in León

      May 10, 2023 in Spain

      A cold day today…max was 18° and single figures in the morning…but cloudless, sunny and sparkling! We got up leisurely, had breakfast and made our way to the cathedral at 9.30 when it opens….an excellent move, as by the time we had finished, groups and many people arriving, and we had a beautiful visit with only a handful of people wandering round. This cathedral is almost perfect - gothic, tall, stained glass windows covering almost every space. Simple and straightforward…we got an audio description from a QR code. Should not be compared with Burgos, such different styles - Burgos is a large complicated area, with added chapels over the centuries, and much more ornate…both wonderful in their own way, but at the moment I am in love with León! And amazingly there was no scaffolding so it looked magnificent.

      After that we walked along the camino route to leave León, as far as the monasterio San Marcos…we have always walked past it at the beginning of our walking day, and never stopped to look. It is a wonderful building, the church and small museum remains, and the main building is now a parador…very fancy 5 star hotel. But the church and museum were lovely, and we sat in the square afterwards in the sun…

      Walked back round the walls again and went to a bar and had coffees..my first since I first went to hospital and actually found it nice thank goodness! Just hadn’t felt like it before.

      At 1.30 we went and sat in front of the cathedral as an Oz doctor walker who had kindly examined me originally in San Juan at the beginning of everything was walking into León today, and he and Amr had kept in touch and we met for lunch! He needed sustenance as he had a further 7 kms to walk, and we met in much better circumstances and chatted and found he was from Warwick, Queensland, where Pip Wolstenholme (my great niece) is and he was sure his wife would know her, as small community and the horsey people all know each other…small world…very nice guy, and then he set off again and we might meet up in Santiago (he will be with his wife by then) as our days seem to coincide after he has walked to Finisterre.

      Kindle time and downtime…Amr went for a visit to the Gaudi building…we went last time and I decided to duck that one, and then we also were booked in (free, but number limit) to visit the equivalent of the León county council building (their translation)…a gorgeous old palatial building, a 45 minute tour. Well, it was beautiful, but the tour consisted of standing in the courtyard while a very animated and knowledgeable woman described it and the history but all in Spanish, Amr was fine, but I gave up about half way through…standing, and not understanding is very tiring!! I saw a couple of others slipping out too…so now quiet time before dinner.

      Back from dinner..very nice but nothing to report and sleep time!!      Read more

    • TravelerAventure de randonnée
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      Day 34

      De villes en villes

      May 22, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C

      Les grandes villes sont entourées de banlieux et nous en avons longé et traversé quelques unes don villamoros qui fut la plus typique, les autres des villes comme les nôtres.

      Leon ville des temps modernes en entrant et graduellement prend de l'âge forteresse Romaine et de la athédrale gothique entouré de bâtiments de style neo gothique dont en photo celle conçu par Gaudi Casa Fernandez appelé au début bla Casa Botines 1891-1893.

      Une fin de parcours qui pour nous est un accomplissement puisque la Meseta comme beaucoup de Pelerins est un obstacle que beaucoup évite à cause de ses changements de température fréquent et innatendue, l'avoir confronté a été difficile mais réalisable.

      Ce soir nous allons reconnaître la fin de ce périple qui etait à l'origine incertain par une soirée de tapas et une sélection de bons vins.

      Hotel Paris Spa est une sélection d'hôtel de choix que nous avons réussi à dénicher pour être prêt de tout les attractions.

      Avant allons lavé ;)      Read more

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    • TravelerCamino
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      Day 25

      Day 26. Leon

      May 24, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C

      This is the day that Cathy and I reconnect. After a 7:30 am breakfast, I set out with Francesco, who I had arranged to meet at 8:00 am and his friend, Luis Miguel. Francesco, the agronomist from Chile who I met on and off for the past week, linked up with Luis Miguel, from Palentia, a province in Spain. Francesco, who speaks very good English, translated Spanish to English for me, while Luis Miguel only spoke Spanish. We set off from Mansilla de Las Mulas together headed for Leon. I had expected Leon to be a city of 1.2 million people, but Luis Miguel clarified that it was actually a city of 120 000 people, smaller than Burgos.
      I’ve felt that while here in Spain a responsibility to act as an ambassador for Yellowknife. Even in Canada, when I mention that I’m from Yellowknife, many people immediately have visions of cold weather, but many are attracted to its openness and adventure. My sense was that Francesco and Luis Miguel were intrigued with Yellowknife, eager to know more about it, and when we met a couple of fellow Canadians from Kelowna and Prince George, raving about Yellowknife, they were intrigued even further. Francesco had even done some research on Yellowknife. However, all the pride I felt about Yellowknife was abruptly squashed when we met Eduardo. a Spanish engineer who had worked on the Deb Cho bridge in Fort Providence, 14 years ago. His memories of working in the North were not endearing. He was there in the hips of winter: -35 degrees with strong winds, they were working “on the ugliest bridge I’ve ever worked on,” the wind chills were unbearable. Everything I had done to praise and promote Yellowknife in the past 7 days, evaporated in 3 minutes. Then, when I mentioned it was nice during summer months, he rebutted with horrifying stories about mosquitoes, followed by encounters with largest, fiercest horseflies known to man. Whe Eduardo was finished talking about his northern Canada experience both Francesco and Luis Miguel admitted that their desire to visit Yellowknife had waned and would likely be limited to Google.
      Today’s 22 km walk brought us into Leon mostly following a path that ran parallel to a busy highway. Cathy arrived at the bus station at 6:45 on and it feels great to be back together. Tonight, Francesco, Luis Miguel, Cathy and I went out for dinner together. Francesco and Luis Miguel continue on. As we came out of the restaurant at 10:15 the city was coming to life, streets filled with people during the middle of the week. Tomorrow, we will spend the day in Leon exploring the many treasures this city has to offer.      Read more

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