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    • Päivä 15

      Elciego 🍷🍇

      24. toukokuuta, Espanja ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C

      Drei mal die Route umgeplant, habe ich einen Stellplatz Richtung Meer ausgemacht…
      Eine Anfahrt quer durch die Weinberge scherzte der Simon noch - „Schau, da steht Muriel!“
      Und wie es der Zufall so will?!
      Übernachten wir heute direkt hinter dem Bodegas Muriel 🍷🍇
      Ja lieber Opa, da wirst du jetzt schmunzeln ☺️

      Wir haben uns so riesig darüber gefreut, dass wir hier sicher mehrere Nächte verbringen werden 👏🏻
      Morgen gibt’s also eine richtige Weinverkostung 🛢️🍷
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    • Päivä 10

      Day 10 On to Logrono, a bigger town!

      15. toukokuuta, Espanja ⋅ ☁️ 52 °F

      We have hiked 153.5 kilometers of the Camino so far! We took a short day, hiking to Logrono today so we could relax and enjoy the bigger town. Enjoyed lunch on the main square and then tappas par excellance for dinner on famous Laurel Street. Having a great time! Going long tomorrow.Lue lisää

    • Päivä 15

      Torres del Rio Spain

      9. toukokuuta, Espanja ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C

      Day 7 Torres del Rio
      Distance from Estella to Torres del Rio 32kms

      With a long day ahead we rose early and walked out into the crisp
      early morning. We almost had the path to ourselves maybe due to the early start and pilgrims spreading out. We marveled at the quietness and beauty of rural Spain the sun was shining and a temperature of 25c we were all smiles.
      Passed by a fabulous wine chateau (Monjardin) in a small village and took a short break where we lunched under a shady tree and talked about how fortunate we were to be having such a wonderful adventure. We arrived mid afternoon to our albergue for the night (with a bonus of a plunge pool) after 32kms. We were feeling good.
      Heading to Logrono tomorrow approximately 20kms.
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    • Päivä 53–57

      Camping Haro

      7. toukokuuta, Espanja ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C

      Wie schon gesagt, treiben uns Petras Rückenschmerzen raus aus Galicien Richtung "Costa Brava". Hier erhoffen wir uns Hilfe von einem deutsch sprechenden Arzt. 700 km Asphalt fressen sind angesagt. Wir verlassen unseren "Fjord" mit wehleidigen Blicken. Es geht hoch und runter quer durch Galicien. Der Bulli ächzt und der Dieselverbrauch reißt die 13 Liter Grenze. Die bewaldeten Hügel werden abgelöst durch über 2000 m hohe Gebirgszüge. Schneefelder blinken uns entgegen, um nach kurzer Zeit wieder zu verschwinden. Eine Ebene mit endlosen Felderflächen übernimmt das Zepter. Kurz vor Haro, unserem Zielort, übernehmen Rebstöcke. Mein schmerzgeplagter Guide erklärt mir, hier liegt die Wiege des "Rioja". Einer Weinsorte, der auch wir zugeneigt sind. Unser Campingplatz liegt direkt neben der Altstadt, die wiederum von Weinkellereien, gleich einer Stadtmauer, umringt wird. Leider fällt eine Besichtigung aus.
      Hier befindet sich unser " Point of no return". Sollten sich Petras Schmerzen morgen nicht bessern, gehts statt nach Osten gen Norden, in die Heimat.
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    • Päivä 51

      Vitoria-gasteiz & Chartreuse Santa María

      2. kesäkuuta 2022, Espanja ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C

      Réveil à quelques km de San Sebastian.

      À la base, on devait poursuivre le long de la côte tranquilement mais c'était sans compter les gris orages d'annoncés ⛈️.
      Ça n'aurait pas été un gros problème si on avait fait les réparations sur le toit avant. Mais comme la cigale 🦗, on a préféré profité du beau temps 😅.
      Résultat : changement de planning ➡️ direction plus au sud afin d'éviter le pire et surtout faire les réparations à l'abri de la pluie 😬.

      Depuis le début du voyage, ça a du être la distance la plus longue que l'on a faite en 1 journée : plus de 200km 🚌. On a quand même fait un arrêt à Vitoria-gasteiz histoire de couper le trajet.

      Arrivée à Burgos, on se trompe de chemin et finalement on tombe sur une magnifique chartreuse. Nickel pour le pique nique improvisé 😊🥪.
      On visite ensuite le bâtiment très bien conservé et avec beaucoup de reliques inestimables. Ce n'est pas ce qu'on mettrait chez nous, ou en meme en deco dans le van, (déjà çà ne passerait pas 😅) mais ça n'en reste pas moins impressionnant 😮.

      🦺GALÈRES 🚧 (suite et fin on espere 🤞)
      On se pose ensuite sur une aire de pique-nique à 3 km de Burgos pour faire (enfin) les réparations sur le toit. On a identifié, on espère, l'endroit problématique. On défait le mastic existant et on applique un nouveau. Il semble qu'il en manquait à un endroit donc on comble on comble, en espérant que cette fois-ci soit la bonne 🤞🍀.
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    • Päivä 10

      Fast forward to Logroño

      14. syyskuuta 2022, Espanja ⋅ ⛅ 81 °F

      I was going to take the day off walking and take a bus to Logroño. I'm so sore and was ready for a break.
      Well...buses are harder to get than I thought. I ended up walking to Estella (about 5.5 miles) before getting the bus. The place I booked is both far from the bus station and the Camino. Don't know what I was thinking.🤦‍♀️ I'll taxi back to the trail in the morning. That road was too narrow to walk again.Lue lisää

    • Päivä 15

      Day 9 - Viana to Navarrete

      29. elokuuta 2023, Espanja ⋅ ⛅ 57 °F

      People wake up really early in hostels for reasons I don’t totally understand. There is always a pilgrim scrounging around at 5am while the rest are trying to savor a few more minutes of sleep. Sure it was necessary when it was over 100°, but the temps haven’t passed 72° in the last few days. I tried to ignore the racket until about 6:30, when I joined the throngs repacking backpacks to head out for the day. I left around 7:15 and began the long trek up into the old part of Viana. The oath out of the town was a lovely dirt trail that stretched on for about 7km u tip the city of Logroño came into view. I distracted myself with an audiobook as I entered the city. Once I arrived I ran into fellow pilgrims from the night before. We explored the cathedral before grabbing second breakfast. It took a long time to exit Logroño, but as we did we walked through lovely óseos, watched kids and dogs play, and had a paved oath for probably 9 of the 12km that separates the two cities. We enjoyed swans in a lake, adorable squirrels, and vineyard upon vineyard stretched out across Spain’s famous La Rioja winemaking region. The hostel was staffed by a wonderful and funny hospitalero, who happily prodded us for ten minutes before checking us in. After a shower and laundry, Betina and I made our way to a cafe to enjoy an afternoon drink. And then another. We visited the cathedral before returning to our bunks for a bit of r&r before dinner. Anthony, the hospitalero, made a delicious vegetarian paella - which we all happily ate. After dinner, it was back to the cathedral for a quick mass accompanied by s pilgrim’s blessing. It’s almost 9:30pm, which means I’m packed up and tucked into my bunk for the absurdly early pilgrim bedtime. More tomorrow as I head for Azofra!Lue lisää

    • Päivä 11

      Los Arcos to Logrono - part two

      2. huhtikuuta, Espanja ⋅ ☁️ 7 °C

      It's the longest day yet, distance wise, and if you don't want to do the whole 27.8km stage, your one option is to stay in Viana, at the 18.4km mark instead. As the following stage is 29km, there's no making up that ~10km tomorrow, it basically means you turn two days into three by walking the first half of one, the second half of one and first half of the other, then the second half of the other. Messy.

      I've been a sanctimonious prick when it comes to doling out the platitudes to others - listen to your body, take it easy, etc. So when my left quad started giving me gipp on the approach to Viana you'd think I'd have stopped. No, apparently a pilgrim in motion will stay in motion unless acted upon by a bigger force than that.

      Cursing that decision almost immediately, I soon rounded a corner and saw Jovan and another pilgrim - he clearly likes company when he walks - and internally groaned as he ditched her taking a photo to come walk with me again. My feet hurt, my legs hurt, my pack felt heavy, and it was all industrial concrete noise.

      Once in the albergue, mercifully, very close to the edge of town, I repeated my party trick of selecting the worst possible shower. Best I can compare it to is if you left a juice box at room temperature for a while then stabbed it with a fork and held it over your head. Half dressed and fuming, I turned on the one next to it out of interest and thought about stabbing some more as the water came out strong and hot.

      Now, my highly technical towel only really has about three-quarters of a dry in it at the best of times. Perhaps it's made for a much smaller person? I'm not sure where you'd find one. So in choosing to start the shower process again, I was going to have to ask a lot from it. When the time came, the towel looked at me incredulously and suggested I speak to the union. When they didn't show up, the towel threw itself in and slapped about me, wet and cold.

      Today's lesson, which the towel has since provided in writing as a formal complaint: test the shower before committing.

      I'm now sitting in the kitchen waiting for my hair to dry as I strongly suspect Spain sides with Italy in considering going outside with wet hair the most unhealthy thing you can do, up to and including swallowing fireworks. We'll see if I can stand up after, and go from there.
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    • Päivä 9

      Easiest day so far

      31. heinäkuuta 2022, Espanja ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C

      Today I walked from Nájera to Grañón. Just over 30k per my GPS, but it was mostly flat and, importantly, there was no sun until the last 7k.

      I started before 5.30 am and was already at Azofra at sunrise. There's no spectacular sunrise photo because it was very cloudy, which was great for walking. The light breeze made it perfect, and it was all the way like that until Santo Domingo de la Calzada, where the sun finally came out.

      The landscape looked like in the photo, more or less, throughout the day.
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    • Päivä 15

      Adios Navarra

      26. syyskuuta 2022, Espanja ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C

      I was off early and caught the sun rise coming out of Los Arcos. I managed to keep pace with other pilgrims for most of the day for the first time and had to get in a queue for food at the first cafe in Sansol because I was still surrounded by people. I managed to walk 18 km for the first time on the Camino and was in my next accommodation around two o'clock, which was much faster that I was doing earlier in the week.

      Everyday on the Camino so far has been beautiful. Olive groves give way to golden fields already harvested, endless villages with their magnificent bell towers and a smattering of Benedictine monasteries on hilltops. To the north all day were the cliffs of another mountain range and south further hills abound. A wise pilgrim has explained that the Camino is never flat and each day we climb up hill and down dale repeatedly.

      We share the path with many locals walking their dogs and their families, with school children on excursions, with the occasional crazy cyclists and apparently with a bunch of old guys doing a horseback Camino.

      Tonight I spend my last night in the Spanish State of Navarra and the Basque part of Spain. To celebrate I'm staying at the palace, well in a location where there was once a palace. Now it's just a modern hotel built inside the stone facade with bedrooms decorated in regal colours.

      But I soaked in the bath forever My feet are much better and I now only have localised sore spots rather than my whole feet dying, at least that was the case for 15 km. I did struggle with the last three, but I don't have another day longer than today for more than three weeks and lots of shorter days coming up. I might brave carrying my full pack for the 9km into Logrono tomorrow.

      (Sorry about the duplicate photos, can't delete them and to tired to repost the whole thing)
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