Category: El Camino de Santiago
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El Camino de Santiago, León to Astorga
Our two days in León have been very pleasant and restful and we are ready to head on out towards Santiago. We have finished the easiest part of this Camino and will soon be hitting the mountains and unstable weather of Galicia. Jim has walked this section with our daughter Emily in 2015 and is […]
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León
We arrived in León early morning and can’t check into our hotel until after noon so we had some time to explore the city. León is a city on the Bernesga River in northwest Spain with a population of over 200,000. It’s home to many churches and cathedrals noted for their architecture and art.
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El Camino de Santiago from Burgos to Leon
We really enjoyed our time in Burgos exploring the city, resting and taking care of ourselves and meeting up with our Camino Amigos who also happen to be in the city. It still amazes us how our fellow pilgrims come and go. Stopping for one day allows some of them to catch up with us […]
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Rest Day in Burgos
Our rest days are always highly anticipated as we don’t have to get up early and rush out into the cold darkness and start walking. We do have to find a lavanderia and wash all of our clothes though. In the larger cities we also search out ethnic restaurants other than Spanish for a change […]
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Belorado to San Juan de Ortega and on to Burgos
This is another 15 mile day which is about our daily average and there are more rolling hills which keeps it interesting. We leave before sunrise using our headlamps. It is quite cool at 52 degrees but with the exertion and humidity we get sweaty quite quickly. San Juan de Ortega has a population of […]
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Najera to Santa Domingo de la Calzada and then on to Belorado
Our typical days are getting up at 6-6:30am, breakfast at 7 and heading out in darkness 7-8. We like to walk 4-6 miles before stopping for another breakfast as the breakfast fare at our lodgings is fairly meager with minimal fruit, cereals, maybe yogurt with lots of bread, ham and cheese. Jim likes a Spanish […]
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Logroño to Najera
After a one day rest, nice bath soaks and all freshly laundered clothes we are ready to set out on a 16 mile day which ended up being 17.7 with over 1,000 feet of elevation gain.
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Rest Day In Logroño
We have only walked four days and 61.85 miles. but are looking forward to a rest day in Logroño which is a city of 150,000 with a Cathedral of course. Our hotel is adequate, in the city center and has a bathtub which is great for soaking our sore bodies. Actually neither of us has […]
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Camino de Santiago Francés, From Pamplona to Logroño
We walked almost half of the Camino del Norte just one year ago now. We did well from San Sebastián to Bilbao and from Bilbao to Santander. Jim began struggling and we had to abort the pilgrimage on October 3 in San Vicente de la Barquera when Jim just felt that he couldn’t go on […]
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Pamplona
Hemingway reportedly made Pamplona world famous for its weeklong festival of the running of the bulls when he wrote The Sun Also Rises in 1926. We are going there, not for the Festival of San Fermin as it is known in Spain, but to begin a 451 mile pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. Our goal […]
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Take another walk in our shoes. Caminho Portugues da Costa
There are numerous Camino de Santiagos and as part of our training for our second attempt at completing the Camino this October we are enjoying trying out short segments of other Caminos. We walked about 17 miles out of Madrid on May 24 and we thought that it would be fun to now walk out […]
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Camino Madrid, take a walk in our shoes.
We have committed to finishing the Camino de Santiago this fall, but not by the same route that we followed last year. Sandy really wants to walk the traditional Camino Frances route. We have elected not to do the first leg which is a steep ascent over the Pyrenees mountains on day one. Instead we […]
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Update on the end of El Camino and Jim’s health
One month ago today, October 4, Jim trudged up one last hill, sat on a guardrail next to Sandy and bade a teary farewell to our dream of finishing the Camino this year. His body would just not allow him to continue. It has been a long painful month of dealing with a broken health […]
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On The Road Again San Sebastian/Donostia
We left Madrid 18 months ago as the world shut down and now on 12 September we returned to Madrid en route to San Sebastian where we will begin a pilgrimage of 500 miles, walking from San Sebastian to Santiago de Compostela along the northern coast of Spain. This pilgrimage is called El Camino de […]