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Traveler Camino Santiago de Compostella
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- Jun 16, 2022, 7:02pm
- ⛅ 70 °F
- Altitude: 3,930 ft
- Spain Galicia Pedrafita do Cebreiro Celeiró 42.7, -7.07542°42’0” N 7°4’30” W
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Dinner
June 16, 2022 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 70 °F
Ok laugh all you want....
So this Linares where we are is a SERIOUS hole in the wall
There is no restaurant here...but we can still drink beer...
And there is a grocery store...so...got what we can
And there you have it
The finest food that Spain can offer 😋Read more
Traveler Sardinas!!!! Y pan de barra!!! GLORY!!’
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Traveler better than K-rations 😀
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Traveler Simplicity...
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Traveler Loaves and fishes ... what a perfect Camino dinner! But is that a container of Ramen noodles I see?
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Traveler A long walk with my son.
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- Apr 12, 2024, 9:59pm
- 🌙 18 °C
- Altitude: 1,155 m
- Spain Castille and León Vega de Valcarce La Cernada 42.701431, -7.02198342°42’5” N 7°1’19” W
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Day 7: Villa Franca de Bierzo to Laguna
April 12 in Spain ⋅ 🌙 18 °C
Another long walk! 17 miles this time. Forgot to say, it ended up being a hot one! I think it was in the 80s. I was lucky to find a store that sold sun tan lotion. I forgot ours. But we did get some sun burn first.
What a beautiful day. Started off for quite a few miles walking on the road. No ones favorite. But finally went to mountains in a distance and country roads.
The last 3 miles or so was all up hill!! I will admit, at one point I may have thrown a temper tantrum. Why are we going all the way to Laguna?? There is a place to stay before that which works just as well. I lost. Patrick persisted.
In the end, after I barely survived getting up to the top of the mountain, it was magical. So many people we met along the way were here. This is the only alburgue so it was nice to see people we might not have seen for a few days.
After dinner, some young people got together and one was playing guitar and people were signing. Very nice!
10 pm now. Lights out.
Tomorrow we go further up the mountain and down, down, down.Read more
Traveler I will always think of you, for the rest of my life, whenever I see croissant and OJ!
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Traveler Listen if you keep walking this fast, you could spend a day in Madrid 👀
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Traveler Hmm. What would I do in Madrid???!
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Traveler Prado!
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Andreas Hellwig Camino Frances 2022
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- Jun 4, 2022
- 🌧 13 °C
- Altitude: 1,155 m
- Spain Castille and León Vega de Valcarce La Cernada 42.701481, -7.02204542°42’5” N 7°1’19” W
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Tag 34 Villafranca Lalaguna de Castilla
June 4, 2022 in Spain ⋅ 🌧 13 °C
Der heutige Tag ist nur mit einen zu beschreiben sehr Fordernt.
Es ging erst durch einen Schnellstraßen Tunnel der eigentlich für Fußgänger gesperrt ist.
Dann fing es an zu regnen und zu guter letzt ging es auch noch 700 Meter hoch.
Er war der erste Tag wo ich wirklich am Ende war und froh als die Herberge in Sicht kam. Natürlich wie sollte es auch anders sein gab es als Belohnung noch eine richtig dicke Blase.
Bei der mir ein anderer Pilger dann gleich half und die Blase versorgte.
Genau so wie ich am 2ten Tag einem anderen auch geholfen hatte.
Das ist der Geist dieses Weges .
Genau wie in einer große Familie.
Es wäre schön wenn dieser Geist auch im normalen Leben Einzug hälte.
Leider gibt es das viel zu wenig.
Hier merkt man erst das es völlig egal ist wo einer herkommt und was er macht alle haben die gleichen Outdoor sachen an so gibt es keine unterschiede.
Alle sind einfach nur Pilger.
Die 600 km Marke ist geschafft.Read more
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Traveler Ich bin stolz auf dich ❤️
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Traveler Camino frances.
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- Jun 4, 2022, 9:23pm
- 🌧 10 °C
- Altitude: 1,155 m
- Spain Castille and León Vega de Valcarce La Cernada 42.701484, -7.02205942°42’5” N 7°1’19” W
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Von villafranca nach la laguna de castil
June 4, 2022 in Spain ⋅ 🌧 10 °C
Hallo zusammen, heute stand die nächste Etappe auf dem Speisezettel und das Menü war seeehr abwechslungsreich. Vorspeise: Überwiegender Untergrund: Asphalt an Tunneldurchführung und Autobahnbrücken. Hauptspeise: Strömender Regen, zerklüftete Bergpanoramen und Sonne Wolkenmix. Nachspeise: extrem steile Anstiege mit Geröll und glitschigem Untergrund auf ca 1200 hm, Hellado in Form von Hagelkörnern. Alles in allem ein abwechslungsreiches Menü auf einer Länge von ca 25km. Erkenntnis des Tages: Es wird gegessen, was auf der Speisekarte steht.Read more
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Traveler Respekt lieber Jürgen, ich bewundere Dich und Deine Haltung. 🫶
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Traveler Dankeschön Gerda, ich glaube, dass macht der camino mit all seinen Facetten. man kann es mit Worten nicht erklären.
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Traveler Das glaube ich dir, man muss es wahrscheinlich selbst erleben. Aber kann halt nicht jeder, denke ich zumindest.
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Traveler Da könntest du recht haben. Es gibt auch viele, welche aus den unterschiedlichsten Gründen abbrechen.
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Traveler Jakobsweg 2022
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- Oct 9, 2022, 7:14pm
- ☁️ 19 °C
- Altitude: 1,168 m
- Spain Castille and León Vega de Valcarce La Cernada 42.701667, -7.02166742°42’6” N 7°1’18” W
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Etappe 23 - La Laguna 2
October 9, 2022 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
In La Laguna gegen 15 Uhr erschöpft, aber glücklich angekommen.
Herberge wieder 10 Personen in einem Raum. Aus unserer gestrigen Auberge alle wiedergetroffen. Hier geht wahrscheinlich keiner verloren.
Derzeit bin ich fast nur mit englisch sprechenden Pilgern zusammen. Muss ganz schön meine Englischkenntnisse ausgraben. Manchmal beginne ich schon in englisch zu denken, bzw. Selbstgespräche zu führen - seltsam!
Bin hier völlig auf dem Lande - wie aus den Fotos ersichtlich.Read more
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The World is Out There Camino De Santiago
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- Jun 3, 2022, 6:22am
- ⛅ 46 °F
- Altitude: 4,350 ft
- Spain Castille and León Vega de Valcarce La Cernada 42.706292, -7.04773142°42’23” N 7°2’52” W
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O’Cebreiro to Triacastela
June 3, 2022 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 46 °F
Beautiful green pastoral setting. Hit Alto San Roche at the golden moment. Met logistics specialist Pascal from Rotterdam. He just started home brewing! Had to gear up for a short rain. The Way was slick from days of rain and several had bad falls.Read more
Traveler Breathtaking!!!
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Traveler So lush! And that cloud bank looks a lot like the wave of fog that spills over the coastal mountains of SF
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Traveler I love the first (some type of columbine?) and the last (with the country lane). Thank you for bringing us “along”.
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Traveler Camino de Santiago
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- Apr 21, 2024, 6:24pm
- ☀️ 18 °C
- Altitude: 1,297 m
- Spain Galicia Pedrafita do Cebreiro Cebrero Igrexa de Santa María A Real do Cebreiro 42.707736, -7.04256142°42’28” N 7°2’33” W
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Day 30
O'Cebriero
April 21 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
Lucy, Maggie and I are sharing two adjoining bunks, and when we went to have showers, got to know each other very well indeed given there were no doors - school/pool spec. Surprisingly to Lucy and I, Maggie was the prude about this - she's since indignantly asked every pilgrim in town staying elsewhere if they have doors on their showers.

I kneaded my laundry in the freezing water next to Fabrice, hung it out with pegs loaned by Lucy, and then went to get a wine, joined by them one by one and then stragglers until our table in the alley had three others attached to it and about 15 pilgrims around it.

Bells pealing, Fabrice let me rummage around in his bag to borrow a jacket for the cold church and we all hustled up to mass, Lucy setting me off with the giggles a few times as our priest (a Patrick Dempsey lookalike) herded us through a half hour ceremony.

It finished with a special pilgrim portion, where we all stood in a circle and he handed out pebbles with yellow arrows painted on. There was a prayer I can't remember, because someone from each language had to read it to the group. Lucy and I were the only native English speakers and she wasn't having a bar of it so I had to. Nervous, I spoke clearly and retained nothing except the last line: be happy - make others happy.

After we went to dinner, and after they left I joined my Camino cousins, the Brazillians and Italians, at their table and had a grand old bilingual time. They're a big lot - I like them very much but they are too many to make a family out of so cousins it is.

Lucy and I are currently shaking with laughter in our bottom bunks listening to Maggie huff and puff in French at the snorers. I am so scared for this to end. If I walk with them tomorrow it might be harder later. But is that reason not to?

Why now. Why *now* am I finding these people, letting them find me? Another lesson, I'm sure. In Pamplona I think I needed to let the others pass and walk alone, I wonder if now, on the other end of the journey, it is the opposite. A test - can you leave this, can you appreciate something inherently temporary? Can you love and lose?Read more
Traveler Crying in the club 😭😭
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Traveler I like your alley and that odd little building at the end!
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Traveler Solid!!
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Traveler Scotland to Spain
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- Apr 8, 2024, 2:19pm
- 🌫 5 °C
- Altitude: 1,290 m
- Spain Castille and León Vega de Valcarce La Cernada 42.707806, -7.04642°42’28” N 7°2’46” W
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Trabadelo to O Cebreiro 21km
April 8 in Spain ⋅ 🌫 5 °C
So started out raining lightly. I brought an old raincoat that I used previously on the West Coast Trail.....well....it wasn't as water proof as I thought🥴

Anyway, I felt good and things were great until the light rain became a Classic Galicia Downpour!!!! Luckily there was a bar that was open after walking in it for an hour.

My 3 German friends stopped there as well. We decided as a group to press on to the next village 5 km away.

It was so muddy and impossible to keep ones feet dry🥴

When we reached the next Village it stopped raining and the sun even came out. Christian said she wanted to keep walking with me as our paces were similar.

We headed out after eating ( tortilla & cafe con leche) and this is where things started to fall apart.....

It started to rain and the trail was extremely muddy and getting steeper and steeper. We knew of we held on that La faba was 7 km away and there was an albergue there.

We arrived there and it was just pouring!!!! I was soaking wet ( should have brought my Camino rain gear 🥶) and we found out the Albergue didn't open until 2 pm.....it was 12 noon.
There was nothing open in this town.....so....we decided to keep walking.

Up and up and up....the rain turned into sleet......then into snow.....but we kept trudging along. We didn't have a choice to stop anyway. I did briefly to snap a few pics but honestly the low cloud hang obliterated the magnificent view!!

This is the highest altitude on the whole Camino.

We finally reached our Albergue at 2 pm. Shortly after arriving it started to snow even heavier. I saw a big snowplow that had been on the highway I think?

No stores were open so I settled on an Empanada.

We were able to dry our clothes but my boots are not really dry. I hope tomorrow they will be better.

The Albergue has 18 pilgrims or so.....It is toasty warm which is wonderful There are over 60 beds in one enormous room.

This has been quite the day!!
But shoutout to Merino wool and my Injinji socks!!!!! No blisters and I kept my core temp warm even though I was drenched.Read more
Traveler OMG!
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Traveler Yay for Injinji - the very very best! Yay for Merino wool! Your day sounds like Hell - so glad you are now warm & dry, and in pleasant company!
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Traveler Jakobsweg
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- May 16, 2022, 4:02pm
- ⛅ 21 °C
- Altitude: 538 m
- Spain Galicia Samos 42.73067, -7.326842°43’50” N 7°19’36” W
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Samos
May 16, 2022 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
Heute Nacht war voll der fette Vollmond und ich total 🥴🥴🥴. Früh waren dann wieder nur Wolken am Himmel, ansonsten hätte man das Naturereignis von Sonne, Erde, Mond mit irgendso Corona 😂😂😂 aber es war gar nichts zu sehen 🤭

Gestern wurde gesagt es soll schönes Wetter sein und was war, Regen, Regen und Regen und 🥶🥶🥶

Geschafft hab ich heute gute 27,8 km. Viel auf Schleichwegen und oft durch Wald. Und wie erwartet bergab. Ein paar wirklich schnugelige Dörfchens gab's mit vielen Bauernhöfen und toller Landluft 😳. Ne Wäscheklammer wäre heute echt hilfreich gewesen 😂😂😂😂

Irgendwann hatte ich zunächst ne Reisebegleitung aus Südbaden und dann kam noch ein lustiger Iraner der in Hamburg lebt hinzu.

Jetzt hoffe ich das es bald was zu essen gibt.

Ach menno es gibt frühestens ab 20 Uhr was zu essen um Restaurant.

Dafür war ich dann voller Verzweiflung und ja soooooo hungrig im lustigsten Supermarkt überhaupt. 😂😂😂 Erst dachte ich Na toll die haben hier ja fast nix, aber beim umher stöbern bin ich dann auf echt interessante Dinge gestoßen und am besten war die Omi an der Kasse. 😂😂😂 Eine seelenruhe, erst gescannt, dann im Computer erfasst und dann nochmal die Preise abgeglichen. Aber total süß 😍 hab sie zum Schluss einfach drücken müssen 🤗🤭🤭🤭😜

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Traveler 👍👍😊😊Hoffe Du hattest Gute Unterhaltung..... 👍👍☺️
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Traveler Na lecker....guten Appetit
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Traveler Sieht doch gut aus..... 👍👍😊♥️
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The World is Out There Camino De Santiago
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- Jun 4, 2022, 10:33am
- ⛅ 59 °F
- Altitude: 1,785 ft
- Spain Galicia Samos 42.731869, -7.32679742°43’55” N 7°19’36” W
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El Monestario de Samos
June 4, 2022 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 59 °F
An enormous Benedictine monestary maintained since the 1500s, the buildings burned to the rock walls in 1951. The brothers from the famous Monte Casino house, who had to completely rebuild their house after WWII, joined with the Samos brothers and rebuilt Samos to the present condition. I toured with Brother Anton and three Peregrinos from France.Read more
The World is Out There The Abbey was burned to the walls in 1951. The sister house from Monte Casino helped rebuild these Gothic arches.
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The World is Out There This is the door to the ancient Romanesque church upon which the abbey is built. Note the Celtic rune suggesting an even earlier influence.
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The World is Out There The Benedictines were known for their doctoring skills and were specifically sited here to assist Pilgrims in need. This is the apothecary or pharmacy.
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