100 Skies without You

huhtikuuta - heinäkuuta 2022

A personal pilgrimage Lue lisää

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Matkaaja 100 Skies without You
- Näytä matka
- Lisää toivelistallePoista toivelistalta
- Jaa
- 3.6.2022 klo 18.02
- 🌧 18 °C
- Korkeus: 67 m
- Espanja Principality of Asturias Salas Cornellana 43.411667, -6.1643°24’42” N 6°9’36” W
Päivä 53
We don't mess around with chocolate
3. kesäkuuta 2022, Espanja ⋅ 🌧 18 °C
Settled in at Roca Madre and heading down to Corleonna for a pick me up - everything feels lighter without the pack and I'm feeling tired but ok.

So I arrive at the bar with Laura (divorce attorney from Vegas) and Julia (teacher from somewhere more southern) - friends for 40 years although some strain is starting to show and order Caliente sjokalade (yup I'm at a bar and trying a little spanish - Jason Headley would be so proud of me https://youtu.be/UABqrdBll1c so this chocolate arrives, it is hot but it's like mousse you can stand the spoon up in it. SalutLue lisää
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Matkaaja 100 Skies without You
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- Jaa
- 4.6.2022 klo 12.51
- ☁️ 17 °C
- Korkeus: 259 m
- Espanja Principality of Asturias Salas 43.408333, -6.2643°24’30” N 6°15’36” W
Päivä 54
Tasty Salas
4. kesäkuuta 2022, Espanja ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
Matkaaja Salsa was my firsts major stop today and I visited the confectionaire for Manzana something (Apple Danish) super delicious had it at a private riverside restaurant - service was invisible but the ambiance was to die for
4.6.2022Vastaa
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Matkaaja 100 Skies without You
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- Jaa
- 4.6.2022 klo 15.00
- 🌧 15 °C
- Korkeus: 640 m
- Espanja Principality of Asturias Salas Bodenaya 43.4, -6.32333343°24’0” N 6°19’24” W
Päivä 54
Bodenayo - no room in the stables
4. kesäkuuta 2022, Espanja ⋅ 🌧 15 °C
I missed this recommended stop for to bad reception at last night's alberges and with it missed another installment in the fight between 2 American friends of 40 years - vaccine/ no vaccine and who cares most about being a good Catholic. Not my circus not my monkeys but I hope they sort it out. A beautiful spot though.Lue lisää
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Matkaaja 100 Skies without You
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- Lisää toivelistallePoista toivelistalta
- Jaa
- 4.6.2022 klo 16.22
- 🌧 13 °C
- Korkeus: 670 m
- Espanja Principality of Asturias Salas La Espina 43.395, -6.33666743°23’42” N 6°20’12” W
Päivä 54
Alone in a crowd
4. kesäkuuta 2022, Espanja ⋅ 🌧 13 °C
Arrived footsore and weary today, amazing how accurate that term is - not knee sore or back sore or cold sore but aching in my feet ( no blisters or hot spot) just a lot of weight for a lot of miles.

The back up Alberges (the third I tried) was empty when I arrived and I was too tired to walk down stairs so I just hung up clothes to dry and shed my boots and limped down to the supermercado for yogurt and oats, cheese and a roll ( that turned out to be stuffed with chorizo) and tomato and a selection of drinks, and chicken noodles soup. then cooked a yummy late lunch.i was just finishing when a hurricane of Spanish men arrived with way to much energy for having walked nearly 35 km. After thoroughly quizzing me they proceeded to talk at high speed and volume for the next 2.5 hours then left enmasse to ship out drink having made lunch (at 5 pm) I was tempted to leave and try somewhere else I think I've been a bit spoiled by the smaller intimate alberges we have been in to date but I decided to tough it out although I put myself in the other room with a single bunk bed.Lue lisää
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Matkaaja 100 Skies without You
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- Jaa
- 5.6.2022 klo 6.56
- ⛅ 10 °C
- Korkeus: 743 m
- Espanja Principality of Asturias Tineo Bedures 43.388333, -6.3543°23’18” N 6°21’0” W
Päivä 55
Wrong side of the bed
5. kesäkuuta 2022, Espanja ⋅ ⛅ 10 °C
Woke up this morning having not got to bed till 2 pm courtesy of the wall between the 'private' room and the kitchen being an office partition. At 11:30 I finally went in and asked the remaining 2 guys to talk in their room, they were very apologetic but I felt it off sorts and alien and I realised later pretty lonely. I got woken just before 6 and got up feeling a little footsore and had a hot shower which helped immensely and was on the road by 6:30 feeling tired, a bit grumpy and shaking the dust of La Espina from my feet.

My day made an immediate upturn upon meeting Jose sans his lovely wife Maria who we passed back and forth with on the lat few hours of yesterday with. Apparently she decided to sleep in and take a taxi 🚕 a decision that sounded very smart to me. Jose was walking much faster on his own + no pack so he headed off which was good as we had reached the limits of our shared language. Well mostly his shared language.

Mary and Joseph came upon me yesterday I was talking to a horse 🐎 (not the one below but somewhat similar) and I was trying to reassure them I was not totally crazy and Jose said no problem Steven from New Zealand who talks with horses. (I guess their are worse sobriquets).I then had a recollection of which I was very proud cabello (horse right) he shakes his head, not a word caberro - ah yes the double ll as 'r'. I was still pretty proud 'Steven who can spell horse'

So I trotted on still achy feet wondering about doing to take a nurofen but basically couldn't be bothered enough to hunt it ( that cow below was channeling my vibe) and little bit by little bit started feeling better. I reached my half way point in Tineo at 9:30 supposedly a bigger town but everything was closed so I pushed on and as I went out of the town the sun started to rise through the hills.Lue lisää
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Matkaaja 100 Skies without You
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- Jaa
- 5.6.2022 klo 10.00
- ⛅ 16 °C
- Korkeus: 608 m
- Espanja Principality of Asturias Tineo San Martín de Semproniana 43.336667, -6.50333343°20’12” N 6°30’12” W
Päivä 55
Astounding bucolic beauty today
5. kesäkuuta 2022, Espanja ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
Heavily laced with the smell of manure - wow those stables bring tears to the eyes
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Matkaaja 100 Skies without You
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- 5.6.2022 klo 10.44
- ⛅ 11 °C
- Korkeus: 804 m
- Espanja Principality of Asturias Tineo Mañores 43.34, -6.44543°20’24” N 6°26’42” W
Päivä 55
Well met
5. kesäkuuta 2022, Espanja ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
my next companions are Anurada and Nunditha the cousins from India and Mumbai (I think) a great connection and I walk into Campiella and have lunch together before they head on to Borrell
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Matkaaja 100 Skies without You
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- 5.6.2022 klo 19.57
- ☁️ 15 °C
- Korkeus: 602 m
- Espanja Principality of Asturias Tineo Bustiello de la Cabuerna 43.336667, -6.52666743°20’12” N 6°31’36” W
Päivä 55
No dinner
5. kesäkuuta 2022, Espanja ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
good thing we had a big lunch today as no dinner tonight - it's Sunday- the pub's still open though.

Just chilling out on the alberges down with the English rose 🌹 Emma and Brazilian beauty Caroline.

Evelyn the harpist made a brief appearance at the casa bar but I think she got a private room.

I was briefly tempted to do the private room but the alberges was empty and had a washer and dryer so I could dry my clothes properly.

I started regretting that decision tonight after a very chilled out afternoon chatting with Caroline and had a little nap to be awoken by the arrival of the Spanish lads - there was the normal noise explosion but they have disappeared now and seemed somewhat subdued and exhausted - it seems they had a big lunch today and did the last few hours of the walk in the full sun.

I think everyone is a bit worried about hospitalis tomorrow it's a big walk (minimum 28 km) for us since we need to walk an extra 4 km to get to the start and no water or shops on the way.

Hopefully the boys will settle and we can get a good rest.Lue lisää
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Matkaaja 100 Skies without You
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- 6.6.2022 klo 7.00
- ⛅ 11 °C
- Korkeus: 567 m
- Espanja Principality of Asturias Tineo Orrea 43.331131, -6.53779943°19’52” N 6°32’16” W
Päivä 56
My body is talking
6. kesäkuuta 2022, Espanja ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
My feet specifically. Now I'm not exactly sure what they are saying but I think it goes something like this:

'You f#%#ing a#$hole you sit on your ass for 25 years and get fat and then decide out of the blue to walk over 300 km plus extras for getting lost and then carry a freaking backpack as well - you b@%%$#d'

but I might have got that wrong 🤔Lue lisää
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Matkaaja 100 Skies without You
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- 6.6.2022 klo 9.00
- ☁️ 11 °C
- Korkeus: 1 211 m
- Espanja Principality of Asturias Tineo Concellín 43.303333, -6.63333343°18’12” N 6°37’60” W
Päivä 56
A place of remembrance
6. kesäkuuta 2022, Espanja ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C
This marker is just before the peak of hospitalis and I was walking alone so I got to spend some time and tears placing markers for the girls and Luke.
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