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    • VoyageurCamino 2023
      311
      Jour 33

      Day 30

      20 septembre 2023, Espagne ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C

      Left Villafranca del Bierzo at 6.30 am arrived Herrerias at 12.15pm.
      20ks
      There was no difficulty in getting out of this village this morning as we stayed right at the end of the village.
      Our walk this morning was an easy walk. Most of it was on the road, some of which had a barrier as protection.
      Pics from our morning walk. It was chilly for nearly the whole walk.      En savoir plus

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    • Camino Sisters 2023
      Jour 31

      I See a Bad Moon Rising

      29 septembre 2023, Espagne ⋅ 🌙 22 °C

      Molinaseca to Villafranca del Bierzo
      Day 28 - 31 km

      We started early this morning as we had a very big day ahead. As we walked out of our Albergue we were treated to an amazing full moon. We decided to go the country track and we’re very pleased we did. The colours in the fields were beautiful and we spent half our time trying to photograph them. After a couple of coffee stops with fellow pilgrims we needed to push on. 🚶‍♀️🚶‍♀️
      It quickly warmed up and we found it a little tough at the end as we were walking a lot beside the road. However we did manage to meet up with a couple of guys on motorcycles ( Trevor and his brother Ted) so had a lovely night with them. 💕      En savoir plus

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    • Camino Sisters 2023
      Jour 32

      Whoops, we did it again...

      30 septembre 2023, Espagne ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C

      Villafranca del Bierzo to Laguna de Castella
      Day 29 - 28kms

      Whoops, we did it again...we neglected to do our research and basically repeated our original mistake of following other pilgrims on an " alternative route" . BIG mistake... really Big mistake.😑 We immediately started to climb up an almost vertical cliff face...which just basically kept going up and up, until we were eventually, after a couple of hours , up in the clouds, looking down, in the far-away distance, enviously, to where we would have walked on the flat, if we hadn't detoured.😔
      Of course the views were amazing... ( blah blah blah...)
      That would have been fine, and lesson learned had we not had a MAJOR hill climb for the last part of our day...actually THE STEEPEST of the Francis route 🙄 We arrived with barely the ability to make it up the last drag, the searing heat just adding to our exhaustion...Very early tea, couldn't even face finishing our wine, 🙀 and into bed...😴
      Legs are gonna feel it tomorrow 😩      En savoir plus

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    • VoyageurCamino de Santiago
      2
      2
      Jour 31

      Molinaseca to Villafranca del Bierzo16km

      5 octobre 2023, Espagne ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C

      Today we walked through a lot of small villages. We also took a bus a few kilometers to make up for the extra days we took for my blisters and respiratory infection to heal. As much as we wanted to walk the entire route, we do find it interesting to figure out and get on the public transit systems that the locals use. We were in a small village and just flagged the bus down as it was going by. Fun!
      We went out for dinner tonight with 2 interesting ladies from the USA and one of the many cats that we have seen along the way was hanging out by our table. Todd had fish for dinner and graciously gave the cat the fish head! That was one happy kitty.      En savoir plus

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    • Camino 2023
      2111133
      Jour 23

      Day 19- to Vega de Valcarce

      18 octobre 2023, Espagne ⋅ ☁️ 57 °F

      Left Villafranca after a wonderful hotel breakfast, one of the best we have had on the trail to date. Once again, we got a late start.

      We had planned to take the scenic route out of town, but we missed the turn. However we had a beautiful walk following the river, dodging a few cars on the road.

      It rained, sun came out, rained again…sun. All day. We walked into a village within 1km of where we had planned to stay and caught a cafe that was not on siesta, with one table outside in the sun, and we enjoined a delightful lunch. Our Camino friend Carol from UK, joined us for a snack before she went on her way.

      We walked in sunshine up to our town of Vega de Valcarce and to our lovely rooms with an adjoining balcony overlooking the river. We had time to hang our clothes, make a run for supplies and enjoyed our end of day cerveza at our hacienda at a table down by the river.

      While we were enjoying a fiesty game of uno, an older couple who lived across the river, offered us some fruit from their trees down by the river. They didn’t speak English, but motioned to us to cross the river to meet them where they shared some of their fruits. We had no idea what fruits they were, but Joan jumped right into a plum/fig looking fruit and took a bite. They were pleased.

      We were advised that a restaurant in our little town had outstanding paella. We made our way there for dinner and enjoyed a lovely dinner of paella marisco (seafood) and Sangria.

      After dinner Joan and I picked up our game of Uno and soon a French couple pulled their chairs over to join us. They spoke fluent Uno, but not much English. It was a wonderful Camino experience. We also met Julie from Taiwan. All in all a great day. We walked around 18km/11 miles.

      We are getting closer to Santiago.

      Buen Camino!      En savoir plus

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    • VoyageurA Camino to Remember
      3
      Jour 34

      Rest Day in Villafranca del Bierzo

      21 octobre 2023, Espagne ⋅ ☁️ 50 °F

      This is really a lovely mountain town. It’s cute and very picturesque!

      We are taking our last rest day here before slowly climbing upward toward the mountainous town of O Cebreiro the next day. Sadly this is the last day we’ll spend with Lisa and Lisa who we really like. They are going up to O Cebreiro in just one day. Very hardcore! It was hard to say goodbye to them tonight 😢. And we loved our host Dani (Daniel). We got a great group photo!

      Today we got our laundry washed at our hostel where they offer laundry service. We also got haircuts! Then we went to the grocery store for trail snacks. We are always looking for something compact, durable, and relatively calorie dense but having enough sugar for a jolt if we need it, and we got some sugar crusted peanuts as well as some jelly beans. The supermarket was small by American standards, pretty large by rural Spanish standards, and well-equipped. I posted some pictures of it today.

      We tried to visit both of the town’s churches and both were closed. One of them has a Puerta de Perdon, a door through which medieval pilgrims too injured or too sick to complete the journey to Santiago could walk or be carried to see a priest who would offer them absolution despite their inability to finish their pilgrimage. There is another Puerta de Perdon in León, which is maybe five days behind us. These days neither door opens other than on festive days so modern day pilgrims need to just keep on truckin’!

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      We were looking at a cool building and walked to the door to see what it was. Turns out it was a natural history museum! Yay! The collection was odd. There were lots of paper mache giant costumes worn in festivals and a collection of dusty taxidermied birds, mammals, and a few other critters. The building belongs to an order of priests who were missionaries and they brought back specimens from their missions. There were also specimens from near here. The woman who staffed the place took us to a room full of big paper mache costumes to see a video about local wildlife. The viewing space was weird. But the video showed bears, foxes, small and large deer, lots of birds, and some sort of ibex looking animal. Maybe we’ll see some wildlife on the last part of our Camino!

      We bought new gloves for David, hooray! We ate pizza for lunch with Lisa and Lisa. And now we’re chilling out in our room, trying to allow our sore parts to rest a bit.      En savoir plus

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    • VoyageurA long walk with my son.
      152
      Jour 7

      Day 6- Ponferrada to Villafranca del Bie

      11 avril, Espagne ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C

      Another long day! 16.5 miles. It took us way too long. Most of the day today was on a road. Didn’t take too many pictures today. Most of the day was just Patrick and I walking. No other pilgrims around. It was also hot today. I think close to 80 degrees.
      Finally got here and we are staying in an old monestary.
      Went to dinner with someone from England, Spain and Germany.      En savoir plus

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    • VoyageurCamino de Santiago
      112
      Jour 30

      Villafranca del Bierzo to O Cebreiro

      1 mai, Espagne ⋅ ☁️ 39 °F

      403 miles done. 97 to go.

      Today was a challenge. 800 m (.5 mile) elevation gain over 17 extremely muddy miles through the rain, sleet, and snow. I took a lot of breaks just for sanity. And, I stubbed my toe this morning on the corner of the bed, so walking with a bloody big toe added to the fun.

      I made it over the border from the Castilla y León region to the Galicia region, and was immediately welcomed by the sound of bagpipes in the distance, an instrument known here since medieval times.

      The village is cute… but really straight out of the 1400s. About a dozen buildings. All stone. Some with thatch roofs. Three restaurants in total. Feral cats and chickens scatter around every corner as you walk around the village. It’s almost like a movie set for “A Knight’s Tale.”

      I’m wiped after that mountain climb and a heavy “pilgrims dinner” of Galician soup, steak and frites, and a dessert of queso and honey.

      It is still snowing outside, but not sticking. Tomorrow is a trek downhill on the other side of this mountain. Hopefully through not as much mud as today. Night!      En savoir plus

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    • VoyageurSpain y el Camino
      Jour 43–44

      Villafranca del Bierzo

      2 mai, Espagne ⋅ ☁️ 54 °F

      Life never goes as we plan. While life on the Camino is different, it’s still life. All this to say, my plans have been disrupted. The last few days I walked, I’d have 5-15 minutes a couple times of some intense low back/glute pain. I was a bit nervous about the 15 mile walk from Ponferrada to Villafranca having experienced this, but I already had reservations, and it was generally so short-lived that I figured I’d be ok. The first half of the walk was ok- low energy, but no pain. I was finally getting into it when the stabbing pain started back up. Fortunately I was entering a town, so I figured a little coffee break and I’d be good to go. Wrong. It was still there when I got up to keep walking, but I figured it would just take some time. I walked past a posting for a taxi, thought “I should take a photo just in case” and then forgot to do so 🤦‍♀️ The next 8+ miles were brutal. It’s been a long time since I’ve had to dig that deep to push through. Little by little, I made it to the best hostel I’ve been in. The hospitalero is wonderful. I hoped to find a physiotherapist here who could help me, but alas, there isn’t one. So today I’m catching a bus to Sarria, where the last 100km of the Camino starts. My current plan is to stay there for 3 nights before walking again, but I’m trying to not make too many plans at this point. I’m bummed about it, but hopeful that I’ll be back on the Camino in a few days.En savoir plus

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    • VoyageurMy Camino
      Jour 27

      Day 25 walking!

      3 juin, Espagne ⋅ ☀️ 11 °C

      Last nights Albergue in Villafranca is only 2 years old as previous building was destroyed in a fire, the owner was telling me this morning, very sad and traumatic to lose your family home in such a manner. Being modern, it’s a tranquil oasis with lawn and water feature in front and with no bunk beds - hooray!! Ordinary single beds with sheets 😊 (as opposed to sleeping bag!) in 10 bed dorm, photo added.
      As we’re in the mountains, it was little cool as we left and walked out of town but soon warmed up. The way followed the river, Rio Valcarce, flowing along the valley floor close to the main road, but as most traffic now uses the new motorway, the main road is quiet. I chose the more direct flatter route but Fiona opted for the green mountain route for part of the way, she’s gluten for punishment! So we ended up walking separately today as we didn’t quite coordinate meeting up. There are always people to walk with if you want to and I chatted to father and son walking together from Australia (Melbourne) originally from India, for an hour or so this morning, then a Spanish couple from Barcelona, all lovely interesting people.
      Walking through the valley and passing through various villages, there are forested mountains in every direction, blue sky, gurgling river and nature. I saw couple of French ladies picking wild alpine strawberries at the edge of the road this morning, and yesterday a chap was helping himself to cherries from trees lining the road as he walked!
      The path gently wound uphill slightly and there was a great view of the new mountain motorway, quite a feat of engineering!
      The last third of the walk started to go uphill much more steeply, past alpine meadows and the sound of cow bells in high pastures. As the sun was high, it was quite a slog to get to our destination of Albergue La Escuela in Laguna de Castille after 28km. And then our backpacks weren’t here! the van had broken down, they arrived couple of hours later. We’re very rural here, and the Albergue is the local village bar/restaurant and we were eating when we heard a dozen cows with bells, being herded up the road, they seemed very compliant cows!
      My toe is faring very well but unfortunately I’ve developed a blister on ball of left foot but it’s occupational hazard and won’t last long with Compeed etc.      En savoir plus

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