Tag: El Camino

Today’s walk was from Atapuerca to Burgos. A walk we haven’t done before so it was all new for us today. A 22km walk for us with cloudy skies at the start. A much better outcome than the weather predictions we received last night from our phone weather apps. It turned into a very pleasant…

Our walk today was from Villafranca to Atapuerca. About 19kms all up and mostly through a service track for a pine and oak forest. It was very cold and there was snow around from yesterday’s snow fall. Thankfully we didn’t need to walk through a snow storm or much rain but the skies were fairly…

A cold start to the day’s walk this morning with snow during the night as the temperatures dropped below zero. The snow was visible on the gardens and parked cars as we walked out of Belorado this morning. Today’s walk was only a short one as we need to break up the walk into 3…

Today’s walk was challenging. Very cold with temperatures down near 0ºC with constant rain, wind and the occasional hint of snow. It was super cold walking and my hands in the useless gloves were very cold. I had to constantly keep the fingers moving to get the blood to flow. I kept the pace of…

Our last day of the Camino today. We awoke early, had breakfast and set out to walk the last 10kms of the Camino. As we were staying at a hotel near the airport it made sense for us to leave our bags at the hotel and pick them up on our way through to the…

It rained through the night and when we awoke it was still raining so all the wet weather gear was put on to protect the packs and ourselves. I have a sleeve that fits over my whole backpack to protect it from the rain. I wore long waterproof pants today for the first time here…

We left this morning with no breakfast at around 8:00am. It was still dark but there was light in the sky with the sun soon to rise. Nowhere was open at this time of the morning so we had to start without our morning coffee and bacon and eggs. We figured we’d be able to…

Not too much to report on today. An easy days walk today with a lot of road walking. Not as scenic as yesterday’s either but a good day outdoors nonetheless. The view outside our hotel this morning. Cold morning to start being only about 1C so the gloves and beanie were out. Leaving town we…

Forecast for today was clear and sunny again with a foggy morning. We had 26kms to get through today. We left the hotel at about 9:30 this morning. The hotel is in the background of the image to the right. Heading out of Sarria. We were going uphill for a good part of the morning…

We had a fun night last night with some fellow pilgrims again. We’ve been meeting this bunch a bit as we all start finishing our Camino. The hotel we stayed at in Triacastela was also and albergue so it had a mix of accommodations. We didn’t stay in the dorm, a twin share room for…

After our ordeal last night of not being able to find a hotel in the rain we stayed in the albergue and slept in a room with 60 other beds. There weren’t that many pilgrims thankfully, about 30 or so. Plenty of snoring going on. My sleep was restless as I was awoken by someone…

A good start to the day with the sun out. We had a 32km walk today with most of it uphill and the last 8km being mountain goat territory. The road out of town and for most of the day was on tarmac, so, kind to the feet. It followed the valley for the most…