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January 20, 2022
We encounter an interesting fellow peregrino. Villafranca Montes de Oca to Cardeñuela Riopico Surprise surprise, I awoke to another fine morning. The weather had been tremendous so far. Very warm by mid afternoon ( I’d estmate around 27C ) but it could have been so much worse. A month before, the shade temperatures had been […]
December 31, 2021
Day 13….and I’m quite superstitious!!! Vilamayor del Río to Villafranca Montes de Oca It had been a fairly peaceful night in the albergue as I believe there were only five of us peregrinos staying there. I’m happy to say that I felt completely revived healthwise, after the problems the day before. Once again we were […]
December 7, 2021
The first great scare of the Journey Grañon to Vilamayor del Río The night came and went. I had survived the nocturnal session laying upon that wonderful invention known commonly as ‘the matress’. I think I slept from about 01:30 until around 05:30. I’m quite accustomed to sleeping for 4 or 5 hours, it’s quite […]
November 27, 2021
A language we all understand Cirueña to Grañon October now! Time passes or that’s the way it is perceived by the law-abiding people on this planet. As long as the Earth continues to spin on its axis the days will continue to pass by, that’s for sure. But out here on the Camino these days […]
August 26, 2021
I get lost for the first time. Ventosa to Cirueña Another early, fresh and dark start. Curiously enough this brought me into contact yet again with young Nico (the one from Venice) with whom just hours before I had been discussing the finer points of rock music. But despite our recent acquaint it counted for […]
June 15, 2021
We are thrown a lifeline, then I suffer a blow!!! So what has a picture of the side entrance to Spire Hospital Portsmouth that heads this post got to do with the IOW Challenge Walk 2021??? you may well wonder. In part 3 I wrote about how worried I was with the coronavirus restrictions imposing […]
May 31, 2021
The heat and his feet finally catch up with Dan… Logroño to Ventosa Today Dan and I had a particularly early start. He had noticed that today’s intended walk to Ventosa was uphill almost all of the way!!! So he wanted to complete as much of this section as he could whilst the temperature was […]
May 3, 2021
The Good?…., The Bad??…., and The Ugly??? Torres del Rio to Logroño Late evening passed into early morning and so Saturday came upon us all. A week had passed since the start of this Camino, back in St Jean. It was another of the many albergue nights where my body clock, ingrained by years of […]
April 9, 2021
A change of daily schedule. Villamayor to Torres del Rio. Dan and I had agreed the night before that we would leave before sunrise and that we would make the target of the day’s walk to be Torres del Rio. This would avoid two of Dan’s three pet hates, (i) walking too far in strong […]
January 21, 2021
The icons come together, finally Villatuerta to Villamayor de Monjardin The morning was superbly sunny. Today’s target of Villamayor was only 8 miles away so there was going to be a complete reversal of pace compared to yesterday’s dash to the albergue. Hence the lateish departure time of 09:30. Villatuerta has over 1,000 inhabitants which […]